Proposed syllabus and Scheme of Examination B.A (Honors) History

Proposed syllabus and Scheme of
Examination
for
B.A (Honors) History
Submitted to University Grants Commission
New Delhi
Under Choice Based Credit System
April 2015
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Structure of B.A (Hons) History Course under CBCS
CORE COURSE (14)
Paper I: History of India-I
Paper-II: Social Formations and Cultural Patterns of the Ancient
World
Paper III: History of India-II
Paper IV: Social Formations and Cultural Patterns of the Medieval
World
Paper V: History of India-III (c. 750-1206)
Paper VI: Rise of Modern West-I
Paper VII: History of India IV (c.1206-1550)
Paper VIII: Rise of Modern West -11
Paper IX: History of India-V (c. 1550-1605)
Paper X: History of India-VI (c. 1750-1857
Paper XI: History of Modern Europe- I (c. 1780-1939)
Paper XII: History of India-VII (c. 1605-1750)
Paper XIII: History of India-VIII (c. 1857-1950)
Paper XIV: History of Modern Europe- II (1780-1939)
Discipline Specific Elective (Any Four)
Paper I: History Of United States Of America -1(C. 1776 -1945)
Paper II: History Of United States Of America -I1(C. 1776 - 1945)
Paper III: History Of The USSR-I (c. 1917- 1964)
Paper IV: History Of The USSR-II (c. 1917- 1964)
Paper V: History Of Africa (c. 1500 - 1960s)
Paper VI: History Of Latin America (c. 1500 - 1960s)
Paper VII: History Of Southeast Asia-The 19TH Century
Paper VIII: History Of Southeast Asia-The 20TH Century
Paper IX-History of Modern East Asia-I(c.1840-1919)
Paper X-History of Modern East Asia-1I (c. 1868-1945)
Generic Elective (Interdisciplinary Any Four)
Paper-1: Environmental Issues In India
Paper-II: Research Methodology in History
Paper-III: Making of Contemporary India
Paper-IV: Delhi: Ancient
Paper-V: Delhi: Medieval
Paper-VI: Delhi: Modern
Paper-VII: Issues in Contemporary World
Ability Enhancement Course (AEC)
Compulsory-II Papers
Environmental Science
English/ MIL
Skill Enhancement Courses (SEC)
2
Any Two
Paper-I Understanding Heritage
Paper-II: Art Appreciation: An Introduction to Indian Art
Paper-III: Archives and museums
Paper-IV: Understanding Popular Culture
B.A (Hons) History
Core Papers(C): 14,Credits: 6 each, 5classes,1 tutorial
Paper I: History of India-I
Paper-II: Social Formations and Cultural Patterns of the Ancient
World
Paper III: History of India-II
Paper IV: Social Formations and Cultural Patterns of the Medieval
World
Paper V: History of India-III (c. 750-1206)
Paper VI: Rise of Modern West-I
Paper VII: History of India IV (c.1206-1550)
Paper VIII: Rise of Modern West -11
Paper IX: History of India-V (c. 1550-1605)
Paper X: History of India-VI (c. 1750-1857
Paper XI: History of Modern Europe I (c. 1780-1939)
Paper X: History of India-VI (c. 1750-1857
Paper XI: History of Modern Europe I (c. 1780-1939)
Paper XII: History of India-VII (c. 1605-1750)
Paper XIII: History of India-VIII (c. 1857-1950)
Paper XIV: History of Modern Europe II (1780-1939)
Discipline Specific Elective (Any Four) Credits- 6 Each, 5
classes, 1 Tutorial
Paper I-I: History Of United States Of America -1(C. 1776 ñ 1945)
Paper2- II: History Of United States Of America -I1(C. 1776 ñ
1945)
Paper3- I: History Of The USSR-I (c. 1917- 1964)
Paper4-II: History Of The USSR-II (c. 1917- 1964)
Paper5-I: History Of Africa (c. 1500 - 1960s)
Paper 6: History Of Latin America (c. 1500 - 1960s)
Paper 7: History Of Southeast Asia - The 19TH Century
Paper 8: History Of Southeast Asia - The 20TH Century
Paper 9-History of Modern East Asia-1 (c. 1840-1919)
Paper 10-History of China & Japan-I1 (c. 1868-1939)
Generic Elective (Interdisciplinary Any Four) CREDITS-6
Each, 5 Classes, 1 Tutorial
Paper-1: Environmental Issues In India
Paper-II: Research Methodology in History
Paper-III: Making of Contemporary India
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Paper-IV: Delhi: Ancient
Paper-V: Delhi: Medieval
Paper-VI: Delhi: Modern
Paper-VII: Issues in Contemporary World
Ability Enhancement Course (AEC)
Compulsary-2 Papers, Credits-2 Each,2 Classes
Environmental Science
English/ MIL
Skill Enhancement Courses (SEC)
Any Two Papers, Credits-2 Each, 2 Classes
Paper-I Understanding Heritage
Paper-II: Art Appreciation: An Introduction to Indian Art
Paper-III: Archives and museums
Paper-IV: Understanding Popular Culture
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Detailed Syllabus
Core Courses-14
B.A (Hons), History
PAPER I: HISTORY OF INDIA- I
I. Reconstructing Ancient Indian History
[a] Early Indian notions of History
[b] Sources and tools of historical reconstruction.
[c] Historical interpretations (with special reference to gender,
environment, technology, and regions).
II. Pre-historic hunter-gatherers
[a] Paleolithic cultures- sequence and distribution; stone industries
and other technological developments.
[b] Mesolithic cultures- regional and chronological distribution; new
developments in technology and economy; rock art.
III. The advent of food production
Understanding the regional and chronological distribution of the
Neolithic and Chalcolithic cultures: subsistence, and patterns of
exchange
IV. The Harappan civilization
Origins; settlement patterns and town planning; agrarian base;
craft productions and trade; social and political organization;
religious beliefs and practices; art; the problem of urban decline
and the late/post-Harappan traditions.
V. Cultures in transition
settlement patterns, technological and economic developments;
social stratification; political relations; religion and philosophy; the
Aryan Problem.
[a] North India (circa 1500 BCE-300 BCE)
[b] Central India and the Deccan (circa 1000 BCE - circa 300 BCE)
[c] Tamilakam (circa 300 BCE to circa CE 300)
ESSENTIAL READINGS
R.S. Sharma, India’s Ancient Past, New Delhi, OUP, 2007
R. S. Sharma, Material Culture and Social Formations in Ancient
India, 1983.
R.S. Sharma, Looking for the Aryas, Delhi, Orient
Longman Publishers,1995
D. P. Agrawal, The Archaeology of India, 1985
Bridget & F. Raymond Allchin, The Rise of Civilization in India and
Pakistan, 1983.
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A. L. Basham, The Wonder that Was India, 1971.
D. K. Chakrabarti, The Archaeology of Ancient Indian Cities, 1997,
Paperback.
D. K. Chakrabarti, The Oxford Companion to Indian Archaeology,
New Delhi, 2006.
H. C. Raychaudhuri, Political History of Ancient India, Rev. ed. with
Commentary by B. N. Mukherjee, 1996
K. A. N. Sastri, ed., History of South India, OUP, 1966.
Upinder Singh, A History of Ancient and Early Medieval India, 2008.
Romila Thapar, Early India from the Beginnings to 1300, London,
2002.
Irfan Habib,APeople’s History-Vol. 1,PreHistory,2001,
----Vol.-2,Indus Civilization: Including Other Copper Age Cultures
and the History of Language Change till 155 B.C., 2002
Suggested Readings
Uma Chakravarti, The Social Dimensions of Early Buddhism. 1997.
Rajan Gurukkal, Social Formations of Early South India, 2010.
R. Champakalakshmi, Trade. Ideology and urbanization: South
India 300 BC- AD 1300, 1996.
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PAPER II: SOCIAL FORMATIONS AND CULTURAL PATTERNS
OF THE ANCIENT WORLD
I. Evolution
cultures.
of
humankind;
Paleolithic
and
Mesolithic
II. Food production: beginnings of agriculture and animal
husbandry.
III. Bronze Age Civilizations, with reference to any one of the
following: i) Egypt (Old Kingdom); ii) Mesopotamia (up to the
Akkadian Empire); iii) China
(Shang); IV) Eastern Mediterranean (Minoan) economy, social
stratification, state structure, religion.
IV. Nomadic groups in Central and West Asia; Debate on the
advent of iron and its implications
V. Slave society
urbanization, trade.
in
ancient
Greece:
agrarian
economy,
VI. Polis in ancient Greece: Athens and Sparta; Greek Culture.
ESSENTIAL READINGS
Burns and Ralph. World Civilizations.
Cambridge History of Africa, Vol. I.
V. Gordon Childe, What Happened in History.
G. Clark, World Prehistory: A New Perspective.
B. Fagan, People of the Earth.
Amar Farooqui, Early Social Formations.
M. I. Finley, The Ancient Economy.
Jacquetta Hawkes, First Civilizations.
G. Roux, Ancient Iraq.
Bai Shaoyi, An Outline History of China.
H. W. F. Saggs, The Greatness that was Babylon.
B. Trigger, Ancient Egypt: A Social History.
UNESCO Series: History of Mankind, Vols. I - III./ or New ed.
History of Humanity.
R. J. Wenke, Patterns in Prehistory.
SUGGESTED READINGS
G. E. M. Ste Croix, Class Struggles in the Ancient Greek World.
J. D. Bernal, Science in History, Vol. I.
V. Gordon Childe, Social Evolution.
Glyn Daniel, First Civilizations.
A. Hauser, A Social History of Art, Vol. I.
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PAPER III : HISTORY OF INDIA II
I. Economy and Society (circa 300 BCE to circa CE 300):
[a] Expansion of agrarian economy: production relations.
[b] Urban growth: north India, central India and the Deccan; craft
Production: trade and trade routes; coinage.
[c] Social stratification: class, Varna, jati, untouchability; gender;
marriage and property relations
II. Changing political formations (circa 300 BCE to circa CE
300):
[a] The Mauryan Empire
[b] Post-Mauryan Polities with special reference to the Kushanas
and the Satavahanas; Gana-Sanghas.
III. Towards early medieval India [circa CE fourth century to
CE
750]:
[a] Agrarian expansion: land grants, changing production relations;
graded Land rights and peasantry.
[b] The problem of urban decline: patterns of trade, currency, and
urban Settlements.
[c] Varna, proliferation of jatis: changing norms of marriage and
property.
[d] The nature of polities: the Gupta empire and its
contemporaries: post- Gupta polities -Pallavas, Chalukyas, and
Vardhanas
IV. Religion, philosophy and society (circa 300 BCE- CE 750):
(a) Consolidation of the brahmanical tradition: dharma,
Varnashram, Purusharthas, samskaras.
(b) Theistic cults (from circa second century BC): Mahayana; the
Puranic tradition.
(c) The beginnings of Tantricism
V. Cultural developments (circa 300 BCE û CE 750):
[a] A brief survey of Sanskrit, Pali, Prakrit and Tamil literature.
Scientific and technical treatises
[b] Art and architecture & forms and patronage; Mauryan, postMauryan, Gupta, post-Gupta
ESSENTIAL READINGS
B. D. Chattopadhyaya, The Making of Early Medieval India, 1994.
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D. P. Chattopadhyaya, History of Science and Technology in Ancient
India, 1986.
D. D. Kosambi, An Introduction to the Study of Indian History,
1975.
S. K. Maity, Economic Life in Northern India in the Gupta Period,
1970.
B. P. Sahu (ed), Land System and Rural Society in Early India,
1997.
K. A. N. Sastri, A History of South India.
R. S. Sharma, Indian Feudalism, 1980.
R.S.Sharma,UrbanDecayinIndia,c.300C1000,Delhi,Munshiram Manohar Lal,1987
Romila Thapar, Asoka and the Decline of the Mauryas, 1997.
Susan Huntington, The Art of Ancient India: Buddhist, Hindu, and
Jain, New York, 1985.
SUGGESTED READINGS
N. N. Bhattacharya, Ancient Indian Rituals and Their Social
Contents, 2nd ed., 1996.
J. C. Harle, The Art and Architecture of the Indian Subcontinent,
1987.
P. L. Gupta, Coins, 4th ed., 1996.
Kesavan Veluthat, The Early Medieval in South India, New Delhi,
2009
H. P. Ray Winds of Change, 1994.
Romila Thapar, Early India: From the Origins to 1300, 2002.
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PAPER IV: SOCIAL FORMATIONS AND CULTURAL PATTERNS
OF THE MEDIEVAL WORLD
I. Roman Republic, Participate and Empire &slave society in
ancient Rome: Agrarian economy, urbanization, trade.
II. Religion and culture in ancient Rome.
III. Crises of the Roman Empire.
IV. Economic developments in Europe from the 7th to the
14th centuries: Organization of production, towns and trade,
technological developments. Crisis of feudalism.
V. Religion and culture in medieval Europe:
VI. Societies in Central Islamic Lands:
[a] The tribal background, ummah, Caliphal state; rise of Sultanates
[b] Religious developments: the origins of shariah, Mihna, Sufism
[c] Urbanization and trade
ESSENTIAL READINGS
Perry Anderson, Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism.
Marc Bloch, Feudal Society, 2 Vols.
Cambridge History of Islam, 2 Vols.
Georges Duby, The Early Growth of the European Economy.
Fontana, Economic History of Europe, Vol. I (relevant chapters).
P. K. Hitti, History of the Arabs.
P. Garnsey and Saller, The Roman Empire.
SUGGESTED READINGS
S. Ameer Ali, The Spirit of Islam.
J. Barrowclough, The Medieval Papacy.
Encyclopedia of Islam, Ist ed., 4 vols.
M. G. S. Hodgson, The Venture of Islam.
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PAPER V: HISTORY OF INDIA III (c. 750 -1206)
I. Studying Early Medieval India:
Historical geography Sources: texts, epigraphic and numismatic
data Debates on Indian feudalism, rise of the Rajputs and the
nature of the state
II. Political Structures:
(a) Evolution of political structures: Rashtrakutas, Palas, Pratiharas,
Rajputs and Cholas
(b) Legitimization of kingship; brahmanas and temples; royal
genealogies and rituals
(c) Arab conquest of Sindh: nature and impact of the new set-up;
Ismaili dawah
(d) Causes and consequences of early Turkish invasions: Mahmud
of Ghazna; Shahab-ud-Din of Ghur
III. Agrarian Structure and Social Change:
(a) Agricultural expansion; crops
(b) Landlords and peasants
(c) Proliferation of castes; status of untouchables
(d) Tribes as peasants and their place in the Varna order
IV. Trade and Commerce:
(a) Inter-regional trade
(b) Maritime trade
(c) Forms of exchange
(d) Process of urbanization
(e) Merchant guilds of South India
V. Religious and Cultural Developments:
(a) Bhakti, Tantrism, Puranic traditions; Buddhism and Jainism;
Popular religious cults
(b) Islamic intellectual traditions: Al-Biruni; Al-Hujwiri
(c) Regional languages and literature
(d) Art and architecture: Evolution of regional styles
ESSENTIAL READINGS
R.S. Sharma, Indian Feudalism (circa 300 - 1200).
B.D. Chattopadhyaya, The Making of Early Medieval India.
R.S. Sharma and K.M. Shrimali, eds, Comprehensive History of
India, Vol. IV (A & B).
Mohammad Habib and K.A. Nizami, eds, Comprehensive History of
India, Vol. V, The Delhi Sultanate
Hermann Kulke, ed., The State in India (AD 1000 - AD 1700).
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N. Karashima, South Indian History and Society (Studies from
Inscriptions, AD 850 -1800
Derryl N. Maclean, Religion and Society in Arab Sindh.
Irfan Habib, Medieval India: The Study of a Civilization.
SUGGESTED READINGS
Richard Davis Lives of Indian Images.
Romila Thapar, Somanatha: The Many Voices of a History.
John S. Deyell, Living Without Silver: The Monetary History of Early
Medieval North India.
Vijaya Ramaswamy, Walking Naked: Women, Society, and
Spirituality in South India.
Burton Stein, Peasant State and Society in Medieval South India.
R. Champakalakshmi, Trade, Ideology and Urbanization: South
India, 300 BC to 1300 AD.
Al. Beruni’s India, NBT edition.
Ali Hujwiri, Kashful Mahjoob, tr. R.Nicholson.
S C Mishra, Rise of Muslim Communities in Gujarat.
J. Schwartzberg, Historical Atlas of South Asia.
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PAPER VI :RISE OF THE MODERN WEST - I
I. Transition from feudalism to capitalism: problems and
theories.
II. Early colonial expansion: motives, voyages and explorations;
the conquests of the Americas: beginning of the era of colonization;
mining and plantation; the African slaves.
III. Renaissance: its social roots, city-states of Italy; spread of
humanism in Europe; Art.
IV. Origins, course and results of the European Reformation
in the 16th century.
V. Economic developments of the sixteenth century: Shift of
economic balance from the Mediterranean to the Atlantic;
Commercial Revolution; Influx of American silver and the Price
Revolution.
VI.Emergence of European state system: Spain; France;
England; Russia.
ESSENTIAL READINGS
T.S. Aston and C. H. E. Philpin (eds.), The Brenner Debate
H. Butterfield, The Origins of Modern Science.
Carlo M. Cipolla, Fontana Economic History of Europe, Vols. II and
III. Carlo M. Cipolla, Before the Industrial Revolution, European
Society and Economy. 1000 -1700. 3rd ed. (1993)
D. C. Coleman (ed.), Revisions in Mercantilism.
Ralph Davis, The Rise of the Atlantic Economics.
Maurice Dobb, Studies in the Development of Capitalism.
J. R. Hale, Renaissance Europe.
R. Hall, From Galileo to Newton.
Christopher Hill, A Century of Revolutions.
Rodney Hilton, Transition from Feudalism to Capitalism.
H. G. Koenigsberger and G. L. Mosse, Europe in the Sixteenth
Century.
Stephen J. Lee, Aspects of European History, 1494 - 1789.
G. Parker, Europe in Crisis. 1598- 1648.
G. Parker and L. M. Smith, General Crisis of the Seventeenth
Century.
J. H. Parry, The Age of Reconnaissance.
Meenaxi Phukan, Rise of the Modern West: Social and Economic
History of Early Modern Europe.
V. Poliensiky, War and Society in Europe, 1618 - 48.
Theodore K. Rabb, The Struggle for Stability in Early Modern
Europe.
V. Scammell, The First Imperial Age: European Overseas Expansion,
1400 - 1715.
Jan de Vries, Economy of Europe in an Age of Crisis 1600 û 1750.
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SUGGESTED READINGS
M. S. Anderson, Europe in the Eighteenth Century.
Perry Anderson, The Lineages of the Absolutist State.
Stuart Andrews, Eighteenth Century Europe.
B. H. Slicher von Bath, The Agrarian History of Western Europe. AD.
500 - 1850.
The Cambridge Economic History of Europe. Vol. I - VI.
James B. Collins, The State in Early Modern France: New
Approaches to European
History.
G. R. Elton, Reformation Europe, 1517 û 1559.
M. P. Gilmore, The World of Humanism. 1453 -1517.
Peter Kriedte, Peasants, Landlords and Merchant Capitalists.
J. Lynch, Spain under the Hapsburgs.
Peter Mathias, First Industrial revolution.
Harry Miskimin, The Economy of Later Renaissance Europe: 1460 û
1600.
Charles A. Nauert, Humanism and the Culture of the Renaissance
(1996).
The New Cambridge Modern History of Europe, Vols. I -VII.
L. W. Owie, Seventeenth Century Europe.
D. H. Pennington, Seventeenth Century Europe.
F. Rice, The Foundations of Early Modern Europe.
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PAPER VII: HISTORY OF INDIA IV (c.1206 - 1550)
I. Interpreting the Delhi Sultanate:
Survey of sources: Persian tarikh tradition; vernacular histories;
epigraphy
II. Sultanate Political Structures:
(a) Foundation, expansion and consolidation of the Sultanate of
Delhi; The Khaljis and the Tughluqs; Mongol threat and Timur’s
invasion; The Lodis: Conquest of Bahlul and Sikandar; Ibrahim Lodi
and the battle of Panipat
(b) Theories of kingship;
Ruling elites; Sufis, ulama and the political authority; imperial
monuments and coinage
(c) Emergence of provincial dynasties: Bahamanis, Vijayanagar,
Gujarat, Malwa, Jaunpur and Bengal
(d) Consolidation of regional identities; regional art, architecture
and literature
III. Society and Economy:
(a) Iqta and the revenue-free grants
(b) Agricultural production; technology
(c) Changes in rural society; revenue systems
(d) Monetization; market regulations; growth of urban centers;
trade and commerce; Indian Ocean trade
IV. Religion, Society and Culture:
(a) Sufi silsilas: Chishtis and Suhrawardis; doctrines and practices;
social roles
(b) Bhakti movements and monotheistic traditions in South and
North India; Women Bhaktas;
Nathpanthis; Kabir, Nanak and the Sant tradition
(c) Sufi literature: malfuzat; premakhayans
ESSENTIAL READINGS
Mohammad Habib and K.A. Nizami, eds, Comprehensive History of
India, Vol. V, The Delhi Sultanate.
Satish Chandra, Medieval India I.
Peter Jackson, The Delhi Sultanate.
Catherine Asher and Cynthia Talbot, India Before Europe.
Tapan Raychaudhuri and Irfan Habib, eds, Cambridge Economic
History of India, Vol. I.
K.A. Nizami, Religion and Politics in the Thirteenth Century.
W.H. McLeod, Karine Schomer, et al, Eds, The Sants.
S.A.A. Rizvi, A History of Sufism in India, Vol. I.
Mohibul Hasan, Historians of Medieval India.
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SUGGESTED READINGS
Cynthia Talbot, Pre-colonial India in Practice.
Simon Digby, War Horses and Elephants in the Delhi Sultanate.
I.H. Siddiqui, Afghan Despotism.
Burton Stein, New Cambridge History of India: Vijayanagara.
Richard M. Eaton, ed., India’s Islamic Traditions.
Vijaya Ramaswamy, Walking Naked: Women, Society, and
Spirituality in South India.
Sheldon Pollock, Languages of the Gods in the World of Men.
Pushpa Prasad, Sanskrit Inscriptions of the Delhi Sultanate.
Andre Wink, Al-Hind, Vols. I-III.
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PAPER VIII: RISE OF THE MODERN WEST - II
I. 17th century European crisis: economic, social and political
dimensions.
II. The English Revolution: major issues; political and intellectual
currents.
III. Rise of modern science in relation to European society
from the Renaissance to the 17th century.
IV. Mercantilism and European economics; 17th and 18th
centuries.
V. European politics in the 18th century: parliamentary
monarchy; patterns of Absolutism in Europe.
VI. Political and economic issues in the American Revolution.
VII. Preludes to the Industrial Revolution.
T.S. Aston and C.H.E. Philpin (eds.), The Brenner Debate.
H. Butterfield, The Origins of Modern Science.
Carlo M. Cipolla, Fontana Economic History of Europe, Vols. II and
III.Carlo M. Cipolla, Before the Industrial Revolution, European
Society and Economy, 1000 -1700. 3rd ed. (1993)
. D.C. Coleman (ed.), Revisions in Mercantilism.
Ralph Davis, The Rise of the Atlantic Economics.
Maurice Dobb, Studies in the Development of Capitalism.
J.R. Hale, Renaissance Europe.
R. Hall, From Galileo to Newton.
Christopher Hill, A Century of Revolutions.
Rodney Hilton, Transition from Feudalism to Capitalism.
H.G. Koenigsberger and G.L. Mosse, Europe in the Sixteenth
Century.
Stephen J. Lee, Aspects of European History, 1494 - 1789.
G. Parker, Europe in Crisis, 1598 - 1648.
G. Parker and L.M. Smith, General Crisis of the Seventeenth
Century.
J.H. Parry, The Age of Reconnaissance.
Meenaxi Phukan, Rise of the Modern West: Social and Economic
History of Early Modern Europe.
V. Poliensiky, War and Society in Europe. 1618 -48.
Theodore K. Rabb, The Struggle for Stability in Early Modern
Europe.
V. Scammell, The First Imperial Age: European Overseas Expansion,
1400-1715.
Jan de Vries, Economy of Europe in an Age of Crisis 1600 û 1750.
SUGGESTED READINGS
M. S. Anderson, Europe in the Eighteenth Century.
Perry Anderson, The Lineages of the Absolutist State.
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Stuart Andrews, Eighteenth Century Europe.
B. H. Slicher von Bath, The Agrarian History of Western Europe. AD.
500 - 1850.
The Cambridge Economic History of Europe. Vol. I - VI.
James B. Collins, The State in Early Modern France, New
Approaches to European
History.
G. R. Elton, Reformation Europe, 1517 û 1559.
M. P. Gilmore, The World of Humanism. 1453 û-1517.
Peter Kriedte, Peasants, Landlords and Merchant Capitalists.
J. Lynch, Spain under the Hapsburgs.
Peter Mathias, First Industrial revolution.
Harry Miskimin, The Economy of Later Renaissance Europe: 1460 û
1600.
Charles A. Nauert, Humanism and the Culture of the Renaissance
(1996).
The New Cambridge Modern History of Europe, Vols. I - VII.
L. W. Owie, Seventeenth Century Europe.
D. H. Pennington, Seventeenth Century Europe.
F. Rice, The Foundations of Early Modern Europe
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PAPER IX: HISTORY OF INDIA V (c. 1550 - 1605)
I. Sources and Historiography:
(a) Persian literary culture; translations; Vernacular literary
traditions
(c) Modern Interpretations
II. Establishment of Mughal rule:
(a) India on the eve of Babur’s invasion
(b) Fire arms, military technology and warfare
(c) Humayun’s struggle for empire
(d) Sher Shah and his administrative and revenue reforms
III. Consolidation of Mughal rule under Akbar:
(a) Campaigns and conquests: tactics and technology
(b) Evolution of administrative institutions: zabt, mansab, jagir,
madad-i-maash
(c) Revolts and resistance
IV. Expansion and Integration:
(a) Incorporation of Rajputs and other indigenous groups in Mughal
nobility
(b) North-West frontier, Gujarat and the Deccan
(c) Conquest of Bengal
V. Rural Society and Economy:
(a) Land rights and revenue system; Zamindars and peasants; rural
tensions
(b) Extension of agriculture; agricultural production; crop patterns
(c) Trade routes and patterns of internal commerce; overseas
trade; rise of Surat
VI. Political and religious ideals:
(a) Inclusive political ideas: theory and practice
(b) Religious tolerance and sulh-i-kul; Sufi mystical and intellectual
interventions
(c) Pressure from the ulama
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PAPER X: HISTORY OF INDIA VI (c. 1750 - 1857)
I. India in the mid 18th Century; Society, Economy, Polity
II. Expansion and Consolidation of colonial Power:
[a] Mercantilism, foreign trade and early forms of exactions from
Bengal.
[b] Dynamics of expansion, with special reference to Bengal,
Mysore, Western India, Awadh, Punjab, and Sindh.
III. Colonial State and Ideology:
[a] Arms of the colonial state: army, police, law.
[b] Ideologies of the Raj and racial attitudes.
[c] Education: indigenous and modern.
IV. Rural Economy and Society:
[a] Land revenue systems and forest policy.
[b] Commercialization and indebtedness.
[c] Rural society: change and continuity.
[d] Famines.
[e] Pastoral economy and shifting cultivation.
V. Trade and Industry
[a] De industrialization
[b] Trade and fiscal policy
[c] Drain of Wealth
[d] Growth of modern industry
VI. Popular Resistance:
[a] Santhal uprising (185-7); Indigo rebellion (1860); Pabna
agrarian Leagues (1873); Deccan riots (1875).
[b] Uprising of 1857
ESSENTIAL READINGS
C. A. Bayly, Indian Society and the Making of the British Empire,
New Cambridge History of India.
Bipan Chandra, Rise and Growth of Economic Nationalism in India.
Suhash Chakravarty, The Raj Syndrome: A Study in Imperial
Perceptions, 1989.
J.S. Grewal, The Sikhs of the Punjab, New Cambridge History of
India
Ranajit Guha, ed., A Subaltern Studies Reader.
Dharma Kumar and Tapan Raychaudhuri, eds., The Cambridge
Economic History of India, Vol. II.
P.J. Marshall, Bengal: The British Bridgehead, New Cambridge
History of India.
R.C. Majumdar, ed., History and Culture of Indian People, Vols. IX
and X. British Paramountcy and Indian Renaissance.
Rajat K. Ray, ed., Entrepreneurship and Industry in India, 18001947, Oxford In India Readings.
Eric Stokes, English Utilitarians and India.
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Ram Lakhan Shukla, ed., Adhunik Bharat ka Itihas.
SUGGESTED READINGS
David Arnold and Ramchandra Guha, eds, Nature, Culture and
Imperialism.
Amiya Bagchi, Private Investment in India.
Bipan Chandra, K.N. Panikkar, Mridula Mukherjee, Sucheta Mahajan
and Aditya Mukherjee, India’s Struggles for Independence.
A.R. Desai, Peasant Struggles in India.
R.P. Dutt, India today.
M.J. Fisher, ed., Politics of Annexation (Oxford in India Readings).
Ranajit Guha, Elementary Aspects of Peasant Insurgency in Colonial
India (1983).
P.C. Joshi, Rebellion 1857: A Symposium.
J.Krishnamurti, Women in Colonial India.
Dadabhai Naroji, Poverty and Un-British Rule in India.
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Paper XI: History of Modern Europe- I (c. 1780-1939)
I.The French Revolution and its European repercussions:
[a] Crisis of Ancien Regime
[b] Intellectual currents.
[c] Social classes and emerging gender relations.
[d] Phases of the French Revolution 1789 - 99.
[e] Art and Culture of French Revolution.
[f] Napoleonic consolidation - reform and empire.
II. Restoration and Revolution: c. 1815 - 1848:
[a] Forces of conservatism & restoration of old hierarchies.
[b] Social, Political and intellectual currents.
[c] Revolutionary and Radical movements, 1830 - 1848.
III Capitalist Industrialization and Social and Economic
Transformation (Late 18th century to AD 1914)
[a] Process of capitalist development in industry and agriculture:
case Studies of Britain, France, the German States and Russia.
[b] Evolution and Differentiation of social classes: Bourgeoisie,
Proletariat, land owning classes and peasantry.
[c] Changing trends in demography and urban patterns.
[d] Family, gender and process of industrialization.
IV. Varieties of Nationalism and the Remaking of States in
the 19th and 20th Centuries.
[a] Intellectual currents, popular movements and the formation of
National identities in Germany, Italy, Ireland and the Balkans.
[b] Specificities of economic development, political and
administrative Reorganization - Italy; Germany.
ESSENTIAL READINGS
Gerald Brennan: The Spanish Labyrinth: An Account of the Social
and Political Background of the Civil War.
C.M. Cipolla: Fontana Economic History of Europe, Volume III: The
Industrial Revolution.
Norman Davies, Europe.
J. Evans: The Foundations of a Modern State in 19th Century
Europe.
T.S. Hamerow: Restoration, Revolution and Reaction: Economics
and Politics in
Germany [1815 - 1871].
E.J. Hobsbawn: The Age of Revolution.
Lynn Hunt: Politics, Culture and Class in the French Revolution.
James Joll, Europe Since 1870.
David Landes: Prometheus Unbound.
George Lefebvre, Coming of the French Revolution.
George Lichtheim : A Short History of Socialism.
Peter Mathias, First Industrial Revolution.
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Alec Nove: An Economic History of the USSR.
Andrew Porter, European Imperialism, 18760 û 1914 (1994).
Anthony Wood, History of Europe, 1815 û 1960 (1983).
Stuart Woolf: History of Italy, 1700 û 1860.
SUGGESTED READINGS
G. Barrowclough, An Introduction to Contemporary History.
Fernand Braudel, History and the Social Science in M. Aymard and
H. Mukhia Ed. French Studies in History, Vol. I (1989).
Maurice Dobb: Soviet Economic Development Since 1917.
M. Perrot and G. Duby [eds.]: A History of Women in the West,
Volumes 4 and 5.
H.J. Hanham; Nineteenth Century Constitution, 1815 - 1914.
E.J. Hobsbawm, Nations and Nationalism.
Charles and Barbara Jelavich: Establishment of the Balkan National
States, 1840 û 1920.
James Joll, Origins of the First World war (1989).
Jaon B. Landes: Women and the Public Sphere in the Age of the
French Revolution.
David lowenthal, The Past is a Foreign Country.
Colin Licas: The French Revolution and the Making of Modern
Political Culture, Volume
Nicholas Mansergh: The Irish Question, 1840 û 1921.
K.O. Morgan: Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, Volume 3 [1789 1983].
R.P. Morgan: German Social Democracy and the First International.
N.V. Riasanovsky: A History of Russia.
J.M. Robert, Europe 1880 û 1985.
J.J. Roth (ed.), World War I : A Turning Point in Modern History.
Albert Soboul: History of the French Revolution (in two volumes).
Lawrence Stone, History and the Social Sciences in the Twentieth
Century The Past and the Present (1981).
Dorothy Thompson: Chartists: Popular Politics in the Industrial
Revolution.
E.P. Thompson: Making of the English Working Class.
Michel Vovelle, fall of the French Monarchy (1984).
H. Seton Watson: The Russian Empire.
Raymond Williams: Culture and Society.
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PAPER XII: HISTORY OF INDIA VII (c. 1605 - 1750s)
I. Sources: Persian and vernacular literary cultures,
histories, memoirs and travelogues
II. Political Culture under Jahangir and Shah Jahan:
(a) Extension of Mughal rule; changes in mansab and jagir systems;
imperial culture
(b) Orthodoxy and syncretism - Naqshbandi Sufis, Miyan Mir, Dara
Shukoh, Sarmad
III. Mughal Empire under Aurangzeb:
(a) State and religion under Aurangzeb; issues in the war of
succession; policies regarding Religious groups and institutions
(b) Conquests and limits of expansion
(c) Beginning of the crisis: contemporary perceptions; agrarian and
jagir crises; revolts
IV. Visual Culture: Paintings and Architecture
V. Patterns of Regional Politics:
(a) Rajput political culture and state formation
(b) Deccan kingdoms; emergence of the Marathas; Shiva; xpansion
under the Peshwas
(c) Mughal decline; emergence of successor states
(d) Interpreting eighteenth century India: recent debates
VI. Trade and Commerce:
(a) Crafts and technologies; Monetary system
(b) Markets; transportation; urban centres
(c) Indian Ocean trade network
ESSENTIAL READINGS
M. Athar Ali, The Mughal Nobility under Aurangzeb.
Muzaffar Alam and Sanjay Subramanian, eds, The Mughal State,
1526 - 1750.
J.F. Richards, The Mughal Empire.
Satish Chandra, Essays on Medieval Indian History.
Irfan Habib, Agrarian System of Mughal India, 1526 û 1707.
Ashin Dasgupta, Indian Merchants and the Decline of Surat, 1700 1750.
Stewart Gordon, The Marathas 1600 - 1818.
Ebba Koch, Mughal Art and Imperial Ideology.
S.A.A. Rizvi, Muslim Revivalist Movements in Northern India.
K. R. Qanungo, Dara Shikoh.
SUGGESTED READINGS
S. Nurul Hasan, Religion, State, and Society in Medieval India.
S. Arsaratnam, Maritime India in the Seventeenth Century.
Muzaffar Alam, The Crisis of Empire in Mughal North India.
Catherine Asher, Architecture of Mughal India.
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Milo Beach, Mughal and Rajput Paintings.
Satish Chandra, Parties and Politics at the Mughal Court.
Andre Wink, Land and Sovereignty in India.
Harbans Mukhia, The Mughals of India.
J.F. Richards, Mughal Administration in Golconda.
Z.U. Malik, The Reign of Muhammad Shah.
Iqbal Husain, Ruhela Cheiftancies in 18th Century India.
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PAPER XIII : HISTORY OF INDIA VIII (c. 1857 - 1950)
I. Cultures changes and Social and Religious Reform
Movements:
[a] The advent of printing and its implications
[b] Reform and Revival: Brahmo Samaj, Prarthna Samaj, and
Ramakrishna and Vivekananda, Arya Samaj, Wahabi, Deoband,
Aligarh and Singh Sabha Movements.
[c] Debates around gender
[d] Making of religious and linguistic identities
[e] Caste: sanskritising and anti Brahminical trends
II. Nationalism: Trends up to 1919:
[a] Political ideology and organizations, formation of INC
[b] Moderates and extremists.
[c] Swedish movement
[d] Revolutionaries
III. Gandhian nationalism after 1919: Ideas and Movements:
[a] Mahatma Gandhi: his Perspectives and Methods
[b] (i) Impact of the First World War
(ii) Rowlett Satyagraha and Jallianwala Bagh
(iii) Non- Cooperative and Civil Disobedience
(iv) Provincial Autonomy, Quit India and INA
[c] Left wing movements
[d] Princely India: States people movements
[e] Nationalism and Culture: literature and art
IV. Nationalism and Social Groups: Interfaces:
[a] Landlords, Professionals and Middle Classes
[b] Peasants
[c] Tribal
[d] Labour
[e] Dalits
[f] Women
[g] Business groups
V. Communalism: Ideologies and practices, RSS, Hindu Maha
Sabha, Muslim League.
VI. Independence and Partition
[a] Negotiations for independence, and partition
[b] Popular movements
[c] Partition riots
VII. Emergence of a New State:
[a] Making of the Constitution
[b] Integration of princely states
[c] Land reform and beginnings of planning
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ESSENTIAL READINGS
Judith Brown, Gandhi’s rise to Power, 1915-22.
Paul Brass, The Politics of India Since Independence, OUP, 1990.
Bipan Chandra, Nationalism and Colonialism in Modern India, 1979.
Bipan Chandra, Rise and Growth of Economic Nationalism in India.
Mohandas K. Gandhi, An Autobiography or The Story of My
Experiments with Truth.
Ranajit Guha, ed., A Subaltern Studies Reader.
Peter Hardy, Muslims of British India.
Mushirul Hasan, ed., India’s Partition, Oxford in India Readings.
D.A. Low, ed., Congress and the Raj.
John R. McLane, Indian Nationalism and the Early Congress.
Jawaharlal Nehru, An Autobiography.
Gyanendra Pandey, The Construction of Communalism in colonial
north India.
Sumit Sarkar, Modern India, 1885-1947.
Anil Seal, Emergence of Indian Nationalism.
Ram Lakhan Shukla (ed.), Adhunik Bharat ka Itihas.
Eleanor Zelliot, From Untouchable to Dalit: Essays on the Ambedkar
Movement.
SUGGESTED READINGS
Judith Brown, Gandhi: (et al) A Prisoner of Hope.
Bipan Chandra, Communalism in Modern India, 2nd ed., 1987.
Bipan Chandra, K.N. Panikkar, Mridula Mukherjee, Sucheta Mahajan
and Aditya Mukherjee, India’s, Struggles for Independence.
A.R. Desai, Social Background of Indian Nationalism.
A.R. Desai, Peasant Struggles in India.
Francine Frankel, India’s Political Economy, 1947-77.
Ranajit Guha, and G.C. Spivak, eds. Select Subaltern Studies.
Charles Heimsath, Indian Nationalism and Hindu Social Reform.
F. Hutchins, Illusion of Permanence.
F. Hutchins, Spontaneous Revolution.
V.C. Joshi (ed.), Rammohan Roy and the process of Modernization
in India.
J.Krishnamurti, Women in Colonial India.
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PAPER XIV: HISTORY OF MODERN EUROPE II (c. 1780 1939)
I. Liberal Democracy, Working Class Movements and
Socialism in the 19th and 20th Centuries:
[a] The struggle for parliamentary democracy and civil liberties in
Britain.
[b] Forms of protest during early capitalism: food riots in France
and England: Luddites and Chartism.
[c] Early socialist thought; Marxian Socialism û the First and the
Second International.
[d] German Social Democracy, Politics and Culture.
[e] Christian Democracy as a political and ideological force in
western and central Europe
II. The Crisis of Feudalism in Russia and Experiments in
Socialism:
[a] Emancipation of serfs.
[b] Russian Populism and Social Democracy.
[c] Revolutions of 1905; the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917.
[d] Programme of Socialist Construction.
III. Imperialism, War, and Crisis: c. 1880 û-1939:
[a] Theories and mechanisms of imperialism; growth of
Militarism; Power blocks and alliances: expansion of European
empires - War of 1914 - 1918
[b] The post 1919 World Order: economic crises, the Great
Depression and Recovery.
[c] Fascism and Nazism.
[d] The Spanish Civil War.
[e] Origins of the Second World War.
IV. Cultural and Intellectual Developments since circa 1850:
[a] Changing contexts: [i] Notions of Culture [ii] Creation of a
New public sphere and mass media [iii] Mass education and
extension of literacy.
[b] Creation of new cultural forms: from Romanticism to
Abstract Art.
[c] Major intellectual trends:
[i] Institutionalization of disciplines history
Sociology and Anthropology.
[ii] Darwin and Freud.
[d] Culture and the making of ideologies: Constructions of
Race, Class and Gender, ideologies of Empire.
ESSENTIAL READINGS
Gerald Brennan: The Spanish Labyrinth: An Account of the Social
and Political Background of the Civil War
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C.M. Cipolla: Fontana Economic History of Europe, Volume II the
Present (1981).
I : The Industrial Revolution.
Norman Davies, Europe.
J. Evans: The Foundations of a Modern State in 19th Century
Europe.
T.S. Hamerow: Restoration, Revolution and Reaction: Economics
and Politics in Germany [1815 - 1871].
E.J. Hobsbawn : The Age of Revolution.
Lynn Hunt: Politics, Culture and Class in the French Revolution.
James Joll, Europe Since 1870.
David Landes: Promctheus Unbound.
George Lefebvre, Coming of the French Revolution.
George Lichtheim: A Short History of Socialism.
Peter Mathias, First Industrial Revolution.
Alec Nove: An Economic History of the USSR.
Andrew Porter, European Imperialism, 18760 -1914 (1994).
Antbony Wood, History of Europe, 1815 û 1960 (1983).
Stuart Woolf: History of Italy, 1700 û 1860.
SUGGESTED READINGS
G. Barrowclough, An Introduction to Contemporary History.
Fernand Braudel, History and the Social Science in M. Aymard and
H. Mukhia eds. French Studies in History, Vol. I (1989).
Maurice Dobb: Soviet Economic Development Since 1917.
M. Perrot and G. Duby [eds.]: A History of Women in the West,
Volumes 4 and 5.
H.J. Hanham; Nineteenth Century Constitution, 1815 û 1914.
E.J. Hobsbawm, Nations and Nationalism.
Charles and Barbara Jelavich: Establishment of the Balkan National
States, 1840 û 1920.
James Joll, Origins of the First World war (1989).
Jaon B. Landes: Women and the Public Sphere in the Age of the
French Revolution.
David lowenthal, The Past is a Foreign Country.
Colin Licas: The French Revolution and the Making of Modern
Political Culture, Volume 2.
Nicholas Mansergh: The Irish Question, 1840 - 1921.
K.O. Morgan: Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, Volume 3 [1789 1983].
R.P. Morgan: German Social Democracy and the First International.
N.V. Riasanovsky: A History of Russia.
J.M. Robert, Europe 1880 - 1985.
J.J. Roth (ed.), World War I: A Turning Point in Modern History.
Albert Soboul: History of the French Revolution (in two volumes).
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Lawrence Stone, History and the Social Sciences in the Twentieth
Century, The Past and the Present (1981).
Dorothy Thompson: Chartists: Popular Politics in the Industrial
Revolution.
E.P. Thompson: Making of the English Working Class.
Michel Vovelle, fall of the French Monarchy (1984).
H. Seton Watson: The Russian Empire.
Raymond Williams: Culture and Society.
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Discipline Specific Elective (Any Four)
PAPER 1-I
HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (c.17761945)
I The Background:
The land and indigenous people: settlement and colonization by
Europeans; early colonial society and politics; indentured labourWhite and Black
II Making of the Republic:
[a] Revolution Sources of conflict: Revolutionary groups, Ideology:
The War of Independence and its historical interpretations
[b] Processes and Features of Constitution making: Debates,
Historical interpretations.
III Evolution of American Democracy:
[a] Federalists: Jeffersonianism: Jacksonianism, Rise of political
parties-18401960; judiciary-role of the Supreme Court
[b] Expansion of Frontier: Turner’s Thesis; Marginalization,
displacement and decimation of native Americans; Case histories of
Tecumseh; Shawnee Prophet.
[c] Limits of democracy: Blacks and women.
IV Early Capitalism:
[a] Beginnings of Industrialization.
[b] Immigrants and changing composition of Labour; Early Labour
Movements.
V The Agrarian South:
[a] Plantation economy.
[b] Slave Society and Culture: Slave resistance.
VI Ante Bellum Foreign Policy:
War of 1812: Monroe Doctrine: Manifest Destiny.
VII Civil War:
[a] Abolitionism and Sectionalism.
[b] Issues and interpretations, and
[c] Rise of Republicanism, Emancipation and Lincoln
ESSENTIAL READINGS
Bernard Bailyn, The Great Republic.
Bernard Bailyn, The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution.
Charles Beard, An Economic Interpretation of the American
Constitution.
Dee Brown, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, An Indian History of
the American West.
Peter Carroll and David Noble, Free and Unfree: A New History of
the United States.
David B. Davis, The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution.
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U. Faulkner, American Economic History.
Robert Fogel, Railroads and American Economic Growth.
Eric Foner, America’s Black Past.
John Hope Franklin, From Slavery to Freedom.
Gerald N. Grobb and George A. Billias, Interpretations of American
History: Patterns and Perspectives, 2 Vols.
Richard Hofstadter, The Age of Reform, From Bryan to FDR
Linda Kerber, Women’s America: Refocusing the Past.
David M. Potter, The Impending Crisis.
W. Pratt, A History of the United states Foreign Policy.
James Randail, The Civil War and Reconstruction.
J. G. Randall and David Donald, The Civil War and Reconstruction.
Kenneth Stampp, The Peculiar Institution, Slavery in the Antebellum South.
Federick Jackson Turner, The Frontier in American History.
Robert Wiebe, The Search for Order.
SUGGESTED READINGS
Lee Benson, The Concept of Jackson Democracy.
Ray A. Billington, Westward Expansion.
Paul Boyer, Harvard Sitkoff, Nancy Woloch, The Enduring Vision: A
History of the American People, Vols. Land 2.
Thomas Cochran, The Inner Revolution.
A. O. Craven, The Growth of Southern Nationalism, 1848 - 1861.
Lance E. Davis (ed.), American Economic Growth.
Carl N. Degler, At Odds: Women and Family in America from the
Revolution to the Present.
Fogel and Engerman? Time on the Cross-.
Lewis L. Gould (ed.), The Progressive Era.
John D. Hicks, The Federal Union: A History of USA Since 1865.
R.P. Kaushik, Significant Themes in American History.
David M. Kennedy, Thomas Bailey and Mel Piehl, The Brief American
Pageant.
Irving Kristol, Gordon Wood and others, America’s Continuing
Revolution.
Richard W. Leopold, The Growth of American Foreign Policy.
Perry Miller, From Colony to Province.
Gary Nash (ed.), Retracing the Past.
Henry Pelling, American Labor.
Edward Pessen, Jacksonian Panorama.
Charles Sellers, Henry May and Neil McMillen, A Synopsis of
American History; 2 Vols.
Donald Shihan, The Making of American History: The Emergence of
the Nation, Vols. II & I.
Dwijendra Tripathi and S.C. Tiwari, Themes and Perspectives in
American History.
James Weinstein, The Corporate Ideal in the Liberal state.
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PAPER 2- II: SEMESTER IV
HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (c.17761945)
I
Reconstructions:
Political
changes
and
agrarian
transformation:
[a] Conservative and Radical phases.
[b] The New South: Participants and Reactions, Carpetbaggers;
Scalawags, Blacks, Ku Klux Klan.
II Industrial America:
[a] Growth of Capitalism and Big Business.
[b] Business cycles; Depression.
III Resistance and Reform:
[a] Labour movements and Unionization.
[b] Agrarian crises and populism. Urban corruption and
progressivism.
[c] New Deal.
IV U.S. Imperialism:
[a] Spanish-American War
[b] Expansion in the Far East and Latin America
[c] World War I and Fourteen Points
[d] Isolationism
[e] Americans in World War II: Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
V Afro-American Movements:
Black Movements: Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Dubois; NAACP
and Marcus Garvey.
VI Women’s Movements:
[a] Rise of the Lowell Factory System
[b] Abolitionists and Women’s rights movement
[c] Suffrage
[d] Afro-American Women
VII Religious, Cultural and Intellectual Trends:
[a] Religious movements; Early Revivalism; Puritans, Quakers;
Mormons;
Temperance.
[b] Mass culture (circa 1900 - 1945)
[c] Major literary trends (circa 1900 - 1945).
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PAPER 3-I
HISTORY OF THE USSR (c. 1917-64)
I. The Russia Revolutions of February and October 1917: Dual
Power, Provisional government; the establishment of soviet Power;
Nationalities question.
II. Civil War and War Communism 1918-1921: The first eight
months; Red and White Economic Policies.
III. The New Economic Policy: Political Debates; trade unions;
gender relations; Foreign Policy; the Comintern; formation of the
USSR.
IV. The Great Debate of Soviet Industrialization.
V. Collectivization of Soviet Agriculture.
ESSENTIAL READINGS
E.H. Carr: A History of Soviet Russia, 4 Volumes (1952).
Stephen F. Cohen: Bukharin and the Bolshevik Revolution: A
Political Biography, 1888 - 1938 (1973).
Isaac Deutscher: Stalin (1949).
Maurice Dobb: Soviet Economic Development Since 1917 (1972).
Marc Ferro: The Russian Revolution of February 1917 (1972).
Sheila Fitzpatrick: Cultural Revolution in Soviet Russia (1978).
Arch Getty: The Origins of the Great Purges (1985).
Graeme Gill: Peasants and Government in the Russian Revolution
(1979).
John Keep: The Last of the Empires : A History of the Soviet Union,
1945 û 1991 (1995).
John Keep: The Russian Revolution: A Study in Mass Mobilization
(1976).
A. Kollontai: Selected Writings.
Moshe Levin: The Making of the Soviet System (1985).
Roy & Zhores Medvedev: Khrushchev: The Years in Power (1977).
Alec Nove: An Economic History of the USSR (1993).
Richard Pipes: Russia of the Old Regime.
L.Szamuely: First Models of Socialist Economic Systems.
Trotsky: The History of the Russian Revolution (translated by Max
Eastman) (1959).
A.B. Ulam: Expansion and Coexistence: A History of Soviet Foreign
Policy, 1917 û 67
(1968).
K. Vaidyanathan: The Formation of the Soviet Control Asian
Nationalities.
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PAPER 4-II
HISTORY OF THE USSR (c. 1917-1964s)
I. Planned Industrialization 1928-41.
II. Political, Social and Cultural Changes 1928-45:
Demography, Working Class and gender relations
III. Soviet History: 1945-56 Industrial and Agricultural
reconstruction; Moves towards Market Socialism.
IV. The Khrushchev
agricultural Policies.
Era:
Desalinization;
industrial
and
V. Soviet Foreign Policy, Cominterns and the Second World War
1929-45.
ESSENTIAL READINGS
E.H. Carr: A History of Soviet Russia, 4 Volumes (1952).
Stephen F. Cohen: Bukharin and the Bolshevik Revolution: A
Political Biography, 1888 û
1938 (1973).
Isaac Deutscher: Stalin (1949).
Maurice Dobb: Soviet Economic Development Since 1917 (1972).
Marc Ferro: The Russian Revolution of February 1917 (1972).
Sheila Fitzpatrick: Cultural Revolution in Soviet Russia (1978).
Arch Getty: The Origins of the Great Purges (1985).
Graeme Gill: Peasants and Government in the Russian Revolution
(1979).
John Keep: The Last of the Empires: A History of the Soviet Union,
1945 - 1991 (1995).
John Keep: The Russian Revolution: A Study in Mass Mobilization
(1976).
A. Kollontai: Selected Writings.
Moshe Levin: The Making of the Soviet System (1985).
Roy & Zhores Medvedev: Khrushchev: The Years in Power (1977).
Alec Nove: An Economic History of the USSR (1993).
Richard Pipes: Russia of the Old Regime.
L.Szamuely: First Models of Socialist Economic Systems.
Trotsky: The History of the Russian Revolution (translated by Max
Eastman) (1959).
A.B. Ulam: Expansion and Coexistence: A History of Soviet Foreign
Policy, 1917 - 67 (1968).
K. Vaidyanathan: The Formation of the Soviet Control Asian
Nationalities.
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PAPER 5
HISTORY OF AFRICA (c1500-1960s)
I. Main Issues in the Historiography of Africa.
II. Commerce and Migration, c. 1500-1900:
[a] Changing patterns of trade.
[b] The trans- Atlantic slave trade and its repercussions.
[c] Migration of capital and labour, with special reference to
southern Africa.
III. Patterns of Colonization:
[a] Informal empire in the 19th century.
[b] European imperialism and the partition of Africa.
IV. Structures of Colonial Control:
[a] The French in the Maghreb and West Africa.
[b] The British in East, West and Southern Africa.
[c] The Belgians in Congo.
V. Economic Transformations:
[a] Agriculture and forests.
[b] Mining.
VI. Emergence of New Identities:
[a] Islam, Christianity and indigenous religious.
[b] Race and class in colonial South Africa.
[c] Language, education and cultural forms.
VII. Popular Protests, Rebellions and National Liberation
Movements:
[a] Peasants.
[b] Labour.
[c] Nationalist movements in Algeria, China, Kenya, Congo, Angola
and
South Africa.
ESSENTIAL READINGS
F. Ade Ajayi (ed.), UNESCO General History of Africa, Vol. VI
(1989), relevant sections only.
Ralph Austen, African Economic History.
Leslie Bethell (ed.), Cambridge History of Latin America, 10 Vols.
(198 û 95), relevant
Chapters.
A.A. Boahen (ed.), UNESCO General History of Africa, Vol. VII
(1985), relevant sections only.
Michael Crowder (ed.), Cambridge History of Africa, Vol. VIII (1984)
Basil Davidson, Africa in Modern History (1978)
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E. Flint (ed.), Cambridge History of Africa, Vol. V (1976), relevant
sections only.
Charles Gibson Frank, Capitalism and Underdevelopment in Latin
America (1969).
Andre Gunder Frank, Capitalism and Underdevelopment in Latin
America (1969).
A.G. Hopkins, An Economic History of West Africa.
A. Mazrui (ed.), UNESCO General History of Africa Vol. VIII (1993),
relevant sections only.
Rodolfo Stavenhagen, Agrarian Problems and Peasant Movements in
Latin America
(1970).
Bob Sutcliffe and Roger Owen (eds.), Studies in the Theory of
Imperialism (1972).
Rene Tana and Nicolas Spaddacini (ed.), Amerindian Images and
the Legacy of Columbus
(1992).
A.J. Temu and B.Swai (eds.), Historians and Africanist History: A
Critique (1981).
Jan Vansina, Paths in the Rainforest û Toward a History of Political
Tradition in Equatorial Africa (1990).
Nathan Wachtel, The Vision of the Vanquished: The Spanish
Conquest of Peru through Indian Eyes (1977).
John Womack, Zapata and the Mexican Revolution (1972).
SUGGESTED READINGS
Martinez Alier, Haciendas, Plantations and Collective Farms (1977).
Hugo Blanco, Land or Death: The Peasant Struggles in Peru (1972).
Donald Crummy (ed.), Banditry, Rebellion and Social Protest in
Africa (1986).
Johannes Fabian, Language and Colonial Power: The Appropriation
of Swahili in the Former Belgian Congo, 1880 - 1938 (1989).
Nancy Fariss, Maya Society under Colonial Rule (1984).
Bill Freund, The Making of Contemporary Africa (1984).
Bill Freund, The African Worker (1989).
Celso Furtado, The Economic Development of Latin America (1973).
Andre Gunder Frank, Lumpen Bourgeoisie, Lumpen Development
(1972).
Karen Spalding Huarachiri, An Andean Society under Inca and
Spanish Rule (1984).
Gerrit Huizer, Peasant Rebellion in Latin America (1973).
Hill (ed.), Rethinking History and Myth : Indigenous South American
Perspectives on the Past (1998).
37
Bernard Magubane, Political Economy of Race and Class in South
Africa (1979).
A.D. Robert (ed.), Cambridge History of Africa, Vol. VII (1986).
Teodor Shanin, Peasants and Peasant Societies, (2nd ed., 1987),
relevant sections only.
Endre Sik, The History of Black Africa, 2 Vols. (1966), relevant
sections only.
Oliver and G.N. Sanderson (ed.), Cambridge History of Africa, Vol.
VI (1985), relevant sections only.
Paul Sweezy and Harry Magdoff , Revolutions and Counter û
Revolution in Chile (1974).
E.F. Penrose (ed.), European Imperialism and the Partition of Africa
(1975).
Michacl T. Taussig, The Devil and Commodity Fetishism in South
America (1980).
Robert Vicar Turrel, Capital and Labour on the Kimberley Diamond
Fields, 1871 - 90
(1989).
Megan Vaughan, The Story of an African Famine: Gender and
Famine in Twentieth Century Malawi (1989).
Eric van Young, Hacienda and Markets in 18th Century Mexico: The
Rural Economy of the
Guadalajara Region, 1675 û 1820 (1981).
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PAPER 6
HISTORY OF LATIN AMERICA (c. 1500-1960s)
I. Conquest of America and its Repercussions, with special
reference to Mexico and Peru.
II. Economic Transformations:
[a] Mining.
[b] Trade.
[c] Agriculture and forests.
III. Social Transformation:
[a] Decimation of indigenous peoples.
[b] Demographic changes.
[c] Emergence of new social classes.
IV. Transformations:
[a] Christianity and indigenous religions.
[b] Mestizo cultures.
[c] Language and education.
V. Bolivar’s Vision and the Emergence of New States in the
first half of the 19th
Century.
VI. Protests and Rebellions:
[a] Peasants.
[b] Labour.
[c] Indigenous communities.
VII. Assertion of the U.S. Hegemony in the Twentieth
Century.
ESSENTIAL READINGS
F. Ade Ajayi (ed.), UNESCO General History of Africa, Vol. VI, 1989,
relevant sections only.
Ralph Austen, African Economic History.
Leslie Bethell, ed., Cambridge History of Latin America,
10Vols.1984-95, relevant chapters.
A.A. Boahen, ed., Cambridge History of Latin America, 10 Vol. VII,
1985, relevant sections only.
Michael Crowder, ed., Cambridge History of Africa, Vol. VIII, 1984
Basil Davidson, Africa in Modern History (1978)
E. Flint (ed.), Cambridge History of Africa, Vol. V,1976, relevant
sections only.
Charles Gibson, The Aztecs under Spanish Rule, 1964.
Andre Gunder Frank, Capitalism and Underdevelopment in Latin
America, 1969.
A.G. Hopkins, An Economic History of West Africa.
A. Mazrui (ed.), UNESCO General History of Africa, Vol. VIII, 1993,
relevant sections only.
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Rudolfo Stavenhagen, Agrarian Problems and Peasant Movements in
Latin America, 1970.
Bob Sutcliffe and Roger Owen, eds., Studies in the Theory of
Imperialism, 1972.
Rene Tana and Nicolas Spadacini, ed., Amerindian Images and the
Legacy of Columbus (1992).
A.J. Temu and B. Swai, eds., Historians and Africanist History: A
Critique, 1981.
Jan Vansina, Paths in the Rainforest û Toward a History of Political
Tradition in Equatorial Africa, 1990.
Nathan Wachtel, The Vision of the Vanquished: The Spanish
Conquest of Peru through Indian Eyes, 1977.
John Womack, Zapata and the Mexican Revolution, 1972.
SUGGESTED READINGS
Martinez Alier, Haciendas, Plantations and Collective Farms (1977).
Hugo Blanco, Land or Death: The Peasant Struggles in Peru (1972).
Donald Crummy (ed.), Banditry, Rebellion and Social Protest in
Africa (1986).
Johannes Fabian, Language and Colonial Power: The Appropriation
of Swahili in the
Former Belgian Congo, 1880 û 1938 (1989).
Nancy Fariss, Maya Society under Colonial Rule (1984).
Bill Freund, The Making of Contemporary Africa (1984).
Bill Freund, The African Worker (1989).
Celso Furtado, The Economic Development of Latin America (1973).
Andre Gunder Frank, Lumpen Bourgeoisie, Lumpen Development
(1972).
Karen Spalding Huarachiri, An Andean Society under Inca and
Spanish Rule (1984).
Gerrit Huizer, Peasant Rebellion in Latin America (1973).
Hill (ed.), Rethinking History and Myth: Indigenous South American
Perspectives on the Past (1998).
Bernard Magubane, Political Economy of Race and Class in South
Africa (1979).
A.D. Robert (ed.), Cambridge History of Africa, Vol. VII (1986).
Teodor Shanin, Peasants and Peasant Societies, (2nd ed., 1987),
relevant sections only.
Endre Sik, The History of Black Africa, 2 Vols. (1966), relevant
sections only.
Oliver and G.N. Sanderson (ed.), Cambridge History of Africa, Vol.
VI (1985), relevant sections only.
Paul Sweezy and Harry Magdoff, Revolutions and Counter
Revolution in Chile (1974).
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E.F. Penrose (ed.), European Imperialism and the Partition of Africa
(1975).
Michacl T. Taussig, The Devil and Commodity Fetishism in South
America (1980).
Robert Vicar Turrel, Capital and Labour on the Kimberley Diamond
Fields, 1871 û 90
(1989).
Megan Vaughan, The Story of an African Famine: Gender and
Famine in Twentieth Century Malawi (1989).
Eric van Young, Hacienda and Markets in 18th Century Mexico: The
Rural Economy of the
Guadalajara Region, 1675 - 1820 (1981).
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PAPER 7
HISTORY OF SOUTHEAST ASIA -THE 19th CENTURY
I. Pre-Colonial Structures of Power and authority c. 1800.
II. Economy and Society in early 19th c.
[a] Patterns of Production in agriculture and the crafts.
[b] Organization of trade and banking.
[c] Cultural expressions: Folk and Classical.
[d] Islam and popular culture.
III. Colonization and Colonial Transformations:
[a] Processes of colonial control and the Informal Empire in
Thailand.
[b] Peasant society and agrarian transformations, plantations,
forests, mining.
[c] Urbanization: Colonial cities in Plural Societies.
[d] Culture: (i) Colonial Discourses and the Creation of National
Culture.
(ii) Oral traditions, literacy and the case of Malay Hikayats.
(iii) Creation of Perfect Natives.
(iv) Education.
ESSENTIAL READING
B. Anderson: Imagined Communities.
H. Benda: The Crescent and the Rising Sun.
Furnivall: Colonialism and the Plural Society.
G. Hart, ed., Agrarian Transformations: Local Processes and the
State in South- east Asia.
J. Kemp, ed., Peasants and Cities, Cities and Peasants: Rethinking
Southeast. Asian Models.
Milton Osborne, South East Asia: An Introductory History.
Nicholas Tarling, ed., Cambridge History of South-east Asia, Vol.II
SUGGESTED READINGS
B. Anderson: Mythology and the Tolerance of the Javanese.
C. Van Dijk, Trousers, Sarongs and Jubbahs.
C. Dobbin, Islamic Revivalism in a Changes Peasant Economy
(1784-1847).
Charles F. Keys, The Golden Peninsula.
Daniel S. Lev and Ruth T. McVey, eds., Making Indonesia û Essays
on
Modern Indonesia.
Victor Purcell, The Chinese in Southeast Asia.
Tongchai Winichakul; Siam Mapped.
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PAPER 8
HISTORY OF SOUTHEAST ASIA - THE 20th CENTURY
I. Migration: Indian and Chinese Labour and Capital
II. Movements of Resistance and the making of new
identities
[a] Peasant resistance.
[b] Radicalism and the Origins of the Vietnamese Revolution, 19201946.
[c] Indonesian Revolution, 1945-1949.
III. Emergence of Modern Nations and States
[a] The Union of Burma (Myanmar), 1948-1962.
[b] Indonesia, the Sukarno Era, 1949-1965.
[c] Cambodia under Norodom Sihanouk, 1955-1970.
ESSENTIAL READING Asian Models.
B. Anderson, Imagined Communities.
H. Benda, The Crescent and the Rising Sun.
Furnivall, Colonialism and the Plural Society.
G. Hart, ed., Agrarian Transformations: Local Processes and the
State in South- east Asia.
J. Kemp ed., Peasants and Cities, Cities and Peasants: Rethinking
Southeast. Asian Models.
Milton Osborne, South East Asia: An Introductory History.
Nicholas Tarling, ed., Cambridge History of South-east Asia, Vol. II
SUGGESTED READINGS
B. Anderson, Mythology and the Tolerance of the Javanese.
C. Van Dijk, Trousers, Sarongs and Jubbahs.
C. Dobbin, Islamic Revivalism in a Changes Peasant Economy,
1784-1847.
Charles F. Keys: The Golden Peninsula.
Daniel S. Lev and Ruth T. McVey eds., Making Indonesia û Essays
on Modern Indonesia.
Victor Purcell, The Chinese in Southeast Asia.
Tongchai Winichakul; Siam Mapped.
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PAPER IX
HISTORY OF East Asia- I (c. 1840-1919)
I. Imperialism and China during the 19th century
(a) Chinese feudalism: Gentry, bureaucracy and peasantry; the
Confucian value system; Sinocentrism; the Canton commercial
system.
(b) The transformation of China into an informal colony; the Opium
Wars; the
Unequal Treaties; the scramble for concessions; Finance
Imperialism; the Open Door policy.
(c) Agrarian and Popular Movements: Taiping and Yi Ho Tuan.
(d) Attempts at Self-Strengthening (Tzu-chiang): Reforms of 186095; 1898; and 1901-08.
ii. The Emergence of Nationalism in China
(a) The Revolution of 1911: Causes, nature and significance; the
social composition of the Revolution; Sun Yat-sen and his
contribution; the formation of the Republic; Yuan Shih Kai;
Warlordism.
(b) May Fourth Movement of 1919: Nature and significance
II.History of China {Cc199-1949}
(i) Nationalism &Communism in China (1921-1937)
(a) Formation of CCP; and the Guomintang (National Party of KMT)
(b) The First United Front
(ii) The Communist Movement (1938-1949)
(i)The Jiangxi Period and the rise of Mao Tse Tung
ESSENTIAL READINGS
George Allen, A Short Economic History of Japan.
Jean Chesneaux, et al, China from Opium War to 1911 Revolution.
Jean Chesneaux, et al, China from the 1911 Revolution to
Liberation.
Tan Chung, Triton and Dragon: Studies on the Nineteenth Century
China and Imperialisms.
John K. Fairbank, et al., and East Asia: Modern Transformation
Y. Immanuel Hsu, The Rise of Modern China.
Chalmers A Johnson, Peasant Nationalism and Communist Power:
The Emergence of Red China, 1937 - 1945.
Nathaniel Peffer, The Far East: A Modern History.
Victor Purcell, The Boxer Uprising: A Background Study.
Kenneth B. Pyle, The Making of Modern Japan.
Franz Schuramann and Orville Schell (eds.), China Readings, 2
Volumes (Imperial China, and Republican China).
Benjamin I. Schwartz, Mao and the Rise of Chinese Communism.
Hu Sheng, Imperialism and Chinese Politics.
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Chow Tse tung, The May Fourth Movement: Intellectual Revolution
in Modern, China.
Mao Tse tung’s Selected Writings, National Book Agency, Calcutta.
Mary C. Wright, China in Revolution: The First Phase, 1900 -1913.
SUGGESTED READINGS
George M. Beckmann, Modernization of China and Japan.
George M. Beckmann, The Making of the Meiji Constitution.
Lucien Bianco, Origins of the Chinese Revolution, 1915 -1949.
Jean Chesneaux, Peasant Revolts in China, 1840 û 1949.
Tan Chung, China and the Brave New World: A Study of the Origins
of the Opium War, 1840 û 42.
Wolfgang Franke, A Century of Chinese Revolution.
John W. Hall, Japan From Prehistory to Modern Times.
History of Modern China Series: The Opium War, The Taiping
Revolution, The Reform Movement (1898).
M.B. Jansen, Japan and China: From War to Peace, 1894 û 1972.
Franz Michael, The Taiping Rebellion.
Harold Z. Schifrin, Sun Yat-Sen and the Origin of the Chinese
Revolution.
Ssu Yu-teng and john K. Fairbank, China’s Response to the West.
The Yi Ho Tuan Movement, The Revolution of 1911 (all published by
Foreign Language
Press, Beijing).
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PAPER X
HISTORY OF Modern East Asia II (c. 1868-1945)
I.
Japan (c.1868-1945)
(i) Transition from feudalism to capitalism:
(a) Crisis of Tokugawa Bakuhan system
(b) Meiji Restoration :Its nature and Significance
(c) Political Reorganization
(d) Military Reforms
(e) Social, cultural and educational reforms (bunmeikaika)
(f) Financial reforms and educational development in the
‘Meiji’era
(G) Meiji Constitution
(ii) Japanese Imperialism
(a) China
(b)Manchuria
(c) Korea
(iii) Democracy and Militarism/Fascism
(a) Popular/People’ s Rights Movement
(b) Nature of political parties
(c)
Rise of Militarism-Nature and significance
(d) Second World War; American occupation
(e) Post-War Changes
II
Emergence of Modern Korea
(a) The old order and Institutional Decay:Joseon
Korea
(b) Korea’s interactions with the western powers and
Korea’s unequal treaties with Japan
(c)
Attempts at social, political and economic reforms
in Korea
(d) Japan’s colonization: March First Movement and
the growth of Korean nationalism; in situational
transformation 1910-1945
(e) Post-War Changes
ESSENTIAL READINGS
George Allen, A Short Economic History of Japan.
G. Beasley, The Modern History of Japan.
John K. Fairbank, et al., East Asia: Modern Transformation
Mikiso Hane, Modern Japan: A Historical Survey.
Y. Immanuel Hsu, The Rise of Modern China.
Jon Livingstone, et. al., The Japan Reader ( Imperial Japan : 1800 û
1945), Vol. I
E.H. Norman, Japan’s Emergence as a Modern State.
Nathaniel Peffer, The Far East: A Modern History.
Kenneth B. Pyle, The Making of Modern Japan.
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Chow Tse Tung, The May Fourth Movement: Intellectual Revolution
in Modern, China. 1913.
Michael J. Seth, A concise history of Modern Korea,Rowman and
Littlefield,2009
SUGGESTED READINGS
Nathaniel Peffer, The Far East: A Modern History. Ann Arbor:
University of Michigan Press, 1958.
Bruce Cummings, Korea’s place in the Sun: Modern History,
W.W.Norten and Co., 1992
Ramon H. Mayers and Mark R. Peattie(ed), The Japanese Colonial
Empire, 1895-1945,Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1984
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Generic Elective (Interdisciplinary Any Four) CREDITS-6
Each, 5 Classes, 1 Tutorial
Paper-1: Environmental Issues In India
I. The importance of Environment.
2. Geography, Ecology and Cultures in Pre-Colonial India
-Land, Forests, Dams, Water, Pastures, Ecology of Hills and
Mountains
3. Colonialism and developments in the Environment
-New Regimes of land, Forests, Water and Irrigation
-Resistance: Peasants, Tribals and Pastoralists.
4. Environmental Issues in Independent India
-Forests, Dams, Displacement, Pollution, Degradation.
5.Environmental Movements in Independent India
-Forests, Dams, Displacement, Pollution.
6.Enviornmental concerns in a Globalizing World.
Suggested Readings
Mahesh Rangarajan, et al, Environmental Issues in India
Anil Agarwal, et al, The State of India’s Environment, The Second
Citizens’ Report, Delhi, 1985
Madhav Gadgil & Ramchandran Guha, This Fissured Land, An
Ecological History of India, Delhi, OUP,1990
-------Ecology and Equity, the use &abuse of nature in
contemporary India, 1995
David
Arnold
&Ramchandran
Guha,eds,
Nature,
Culture,Imperiaism,Delhi,OUP,1995
Salim Ali, The Fall of a Sparrow, 1985
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Paper-II: Research Methodology in History
I [a] Time, space, human agency
[b] Sources as authority and sources in context: written, oral,
visual, and archaeological
[c] Facts and historical facts; interpretation and meaning
[d] Hypothesis, argumentation, problematique
[e]
Objectivity,
imagination
causality,
generalization,
historical
[f] Narrative and history
II History as interdisciplinary practice: [a] History and
Archaeology [b] History and Anthropology [c] Quantitative
Methods in History [d] History and Psychology [e] History
and Literature
III Historians at work:
Representative writings of any two major historians are to be
critically evaluated on the parameters of the research methodology
with an emphasis on the use of the sources, methodology,
arguments and conclusion.
Essential Readings:
E. H. Carr, What is History, Penguin, 2008 (also in Hindi) Marc
Bloch, The Historian’s Craft (Introduction and Chapter I: History,
Men and Time), Manchester University
Press, 1992.(also in Hindi)
E. Sreedharan, A Text-book of Historiography 500 BC to AD 2000,
Orient Longman, 2004 (also in Hindi) Suggested Readings:
Arthur Marwick, New Nature of History: Knowledge, Evidence,
Language (Chapter V: The Historian at work: Forget ‘facts’,
Foreground Sources), Lyceum Books Incorporated, 2001.
Habib, Irfan. Interpreting Indian History.
University Publications, Shillong, 1988
Northeastern
Hill
Arthur Marwick, The Nature of History (Chapter IV: History, Science
and Social Science), London: Macmillan, 1989
Paper-III: Making of Contemporary India
1.
Towards Independence and Emergence of the New
State
Government of India Act 1935 Working of the GOI
Act Negotiations for Independence and Popular Movements
Partition: Riots and Rehabilitation
2.
Making of the Republic
The Constituent Assembly;
Drafting of the Constitution Integration of Princely States
3
Indian Democracy at Work c1950- 1970s Language,
Region, Caste and Religion Electoral Politics and the
Changing Party System; Regional Experiences India and the
World; Non Aligned Movement
4. Economy Society and Culture c 1950-1970s
The Land Question, Planned Economy, Industry and Labour Science
and
Education The
Women’s
Question:
Movements
and
Legislation Cultural Trends: Institutions and Ideas, Literature,
Media, Arts
ESSENTIAL READINGS
Granville Austin, Indian Constitution: Cornerstone of a Nation, New
Edition, OUP, 2011 Francine Frankel, India’s Political Economy,
1947-2004, New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2006.
Paul Brass, The Politics of India Since Independence, Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1994. Ram Chandra Guha, India after
Gandhi: The History of the World’s Largest Democracy, New Delhi:
Picador, 2007
SUGGESTED READINGS
Bipan Chandra, et al (ed) India after Independence, New Delhi:
Penguin Books, 1999
Appadurai, Domestic Roots of India's Foreign Policy 1947-1972.
New Delhi: Oxford University Press,
1979.
1970.
Rajni Kothari, Politics in India, New Delhi: Orient Longman,
Joya Chatterji, The Spoils of Partition: Bengal and India, 194767,Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.
Sunil Khilnani, The Idea of India, Penguin Books, New Delhi, 2004T
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1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
Paper-IV: Delhi: Ancient
Stone Age Sites in Delhi area.
Pre-historic early historical period, settlements: Later
Harrappan remains in Bhorgarh and Mandoli.
Archaeology &Legends; The Purana Qila excavations and
the Mahabharata Legends, Painted Grey Ware sites.
The early historical period: The Ahsokan rock edict at
Srinivaspuri, Bahapur.
Remains of the 4th-6th centuries: The Mehrauli Iron
Pillar.
The Early medieval period: Lal Kot &Anagpur.
The Medieval &Modern history of ancient remains: The
Ashokan Pillar, Delhi-Meerut &Delhi-Topra Pillars & the
worship of ancient images in modern village shrines.
References:
A.K.Grover &P.L.Balkiwal,”River migration and the floods-A
study of Yamuna River through remote sensing” Man &
Environment,9(1985) PP.151-153.
A.K.Sharma, Prehistoric Delhi &Its Neighbourhood, New
Delhi,1993.
UpeinderSingh, Ancient Delhi, New Delhi, 1999,PP 1-20.
B.R. Mani: Delhi: The thresh hold of the Orient, Studies in
Archaeological Excavations, New Delhi, 1997.
R.C Thakran,”Protohistorical archaeological remains in the
Union Territory of Delhi”, Proceedings of the Indian History
Congress, Calcutta Session, 199 800-806.
Indian Archaeology: A Review, 1954-55,PP 13-14,196970,PP4-6, 1970-71,PP8-11.
M.C. Joshi &B.M.Pande,”Anewly discovered Inscription of
Ashoka at Bahapur Delhi” Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society
of Great Britain & Ireland, 1967,parts 3-4.
M.C. Joshi ed. King Chandra &the Mehrauli Pillar, Merrut,
1989.
B.R. Mani, Excavations at Lalkot,1991 &Further explorations
in Delhi,1991,Puratava,No.22,1991-2,pp 75-77.
Y.D. Sharma, Delhi and its neighourhood,New Delhi,ASI,
1990, pp1-2,8-11.
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Paper-V: Delhi: Medieval
The medieval history of cities of Delhi is associated with the
Sultanate&the Mughals with the Sufis, the Courtiers and the people
who resided here.It is connected with the artisanate, the
commercial groups and the brokers ,the bazaar and their
hinterlands that created a glittering emporium & a culture of
urbanity that seized the imagination of the people of age
1.An account of many Cities,
2.Delhi as Imperial Camp &City,
3.Delhi as Economic Centre,
Delhi as Social &Cultural Centre.
Suggested Readings
R.E Frykenberg, Delhi Through the Ages: Essays in Urban History,
Culture and Society, Delhi, OUP, 1986(Relevant Chapters
Burton Page, Dilhi: “History, Monuments “ IN Encyclopedia of Islam,
Second Edition,1956,PP,255-66
Ebba
Koch, “The Delhi of the Mughals prior to Shajahanabad as
reflected in the pattern of Imperial visits” IN Ebba Koch, Ed Mughal
Art &Imperial Ideology, Delhi, OUP, 2001.
Mohd Habib,” Introduction to Elliot &Dowson’s History of India, Vol.11, in Khaliq Nizami, Ed, Politics &Society during the Early Mughal
Period, Collected Works of Irfan Habib, PPH, 1974,PP, 80-84
Sunil Kumar, “Qutb &Modern Memory” in Sunil Kumar, Ed, The
Present in Delhi’s Past, Delhi, The Three Essays Press, 2002,PP1-6
Francois Bernier, Travels in the Mughal Empire, AD, 1656-68,Delhi,
OUP,1989,
Shama Mitra Chenoy, Shahjahanabad: ACity of Delhi: 16381857,Delhi, 1998
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Paper-VI: Delhi: Modern
1.Delhi: From the battle of Parpatganj to the Ghadar
1857:An overview.
2.Literary Culture of Delhi.
3. The Ghadar &its aftermath in the life of Delhi of 1857:An
overview
4.The making of New Delhi.
5. National movement in Delhi
6.Delhi: Partition &aftermath.
7. Violence, Dislocation &Expansion.
References
Pavan Verma, Ghalib, The Man, His Times, Penguin, 1989.
Frykenbergh, ed Delhi through the Ages: Essays in urban history,
culture &society, Delhi, OUB, 1996.
Narayani Gupta, Delhi Between the Empires.
Urvashi Butalia,The Other side of Silence
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Paper-VII: Issues in Contemporary World
1.Colonialism and Nationalism: a Synoptic view; Social
Transformation after the Second World War; United Nations
and UNESCO; NAM, Cold War: the character of Communist
States
2 Perspectives on Development and
Underdevelopment: Globalization--a long view
3.
Social Movements in the North and the South: Ecological,
Feminist, Human Rights issues
4.
Modernity and Cultural Transformation: Emerging trends
in Culture, Media and Consumption
Essential Readings:
E.J. Hobsbawm, The Age of
Extremes, 1914 – 1991, New York: Vintage, 1996 Carter V.
Findley and John Rothay, Twentieth-Century World,. Boston:
th
Houghton-Mifflin, 5
ed.
2003 Norman Lowe, Mastering
Modern World History, London: Palgrave Macmillan, 1997
Suggested Readings:
Mark Mazower, The Balkans: A Short History [especially chap.
4], New York: Modern Library, 2000: paperback, 2002
Basil Davidson, Modern Africa: A Social and Political History,
3d edn. London / New Jersey: Addison – Wesley, 1995
I, RigobertaMenchu, An India Woman in Guatemala [Memoir of
1992 Nobel Peace Prize Winner, London: Verso.1987 {Hindi
translation available}
Jonathan Spence, The Gate of Heavenly Peace: The Chinese
and Their Revolution, 1895 – 1980, Penguin, 1982
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Ability Enhancement Course (AEC)
Compulsary-2 Papers, Credits-2 Each,2 Classes
Environmental Science
English/ MIL
Skill Enhancement Courses (SEC)
Any Two Papers, Credits,-2 each, 2 Classes
Paper-I Understanding Heritage
This course will enable students to understand the different facets
of heritage and their significance. It highlights the legal and
institutional frameworks for heritage protection in India as also the
challenges facing it. The implications of the rapidly changing
interface between heritage and history will also be examined. The
course will be strongly project-based and will require visits to sites
and monuments. At least two Projects will be based on visits to
Museums/Heritage Sites.
I. Defining Heritage
Meaning of ‘antiquity’, ‘archaeological site’, ‘tangible heritage’,
'intangible heritage' and ‘art treasure’
II. Evolution of Heritage Legislation and the Institutional
Framework:
Conventions and Acts— national and international Heritage-related
government departments, museums, regulatory bodies etc.
Conservation Initiatives
III. Challenges facing Tangible and Intangible Heritage
Development, antiquity smuggling, conflict (to be examined through
specific case studies)
IV. Evolution of Heritage Legislation and the Institutional
Framework:
Conventions and Acts— national and international Heritage-related
government departments, museums, regulatory bodies etc.
Conservation Initiatives
V. Challenges facing Tangible and Intangible Heritage:
Development, antiquity smuggling, conflict (to be examined through
specific case studies)
VI. Heritage and Travel:
Viewing Heritage Sites The relationship between cultural heritage,
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landscape and travel recent trends
Essential Readings
David Lowenthal, Possessed By The Past: The Heritage Crusade and
The Spoils of History, Cambridge, 2010
Layton, R. P. Stone and J. Thomas. Destruction and Conservation of
Cultural Property. London: Rutledge, 2001
Lahiri, N. Marshaling the Past - Ancient India and its Modern
Histories.Ranikhet: Permanent Black. 2012, Chapters 4 and 5.
S.S. Biswas, Protecting the Cultural Heritage (National Legislations
and International Conventions). New Delhi: INTACH, 1999.
Suggested Readings
Acts, Charters and Conventions are available on the UNESCO and
ASI websites (www.unesco.org; www.asi.nic.in)
Agrawal, O.P., Essentials of Conservation and Museology, Delhi,
2006 Chainani, S. 2007. Heritage and Environment. Mumbai:
Urban Design Research Institute, 2007
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Paper-II: Art Appreciation An Introduction to Indian Art
The purpose of this course is to introduce students to Indian art,
from ancient to contemporary times, in order to understand and
appreciate its diversity and its aesthetic richness. The course will
equip students with the abilities to understand art as a medium of
cultural expression. It will give students direct exposure to Indian
art through visuals, and visits to sites and museums.
I. Prehistoric and protohistoric art:
and crafts
Rock art; Harappan arts
II. Indian art (c. 600 BCE – 600 CE):
World Heritage Site Managers, UNESCO World Heritage Manuals
[can be downloaded/ accessed at www.unesco.org]
Notions of art and craft Canons of Indian paintings Major
developments in stupa, cave, and temple art and architecture Early
Indian sculpture: style and iconography Numismatic art
III. Indian Art (c. 600 CE – 1200 CE) : Temple forms and their
architectural features Early illustrated manuscripts and mural
painting traditions Early medieval sculpture: style and
iconography Indian bronzes or metal icons
IV. Indian art and architecture (c. 1200 CE – 1800 CE) :
Sultanate and Mughal architecture Miniature painting traditions:
Mughal, Rajasthani,Pahari Introduction to fort, palace and haveli
architecture
V. Modern and Contemporary Indian art and Architecture:
The Colonial Period Art movements: Bengal School of Art,
Progressive Artists Group, etc. Major artists and their
artworks Popular art forms (folk art traditions)
Essential Readings
Neumayer, Erwin, Lines of Stone: The pre-historic rock-art of India,
South Asia Books, 1993
Goswamy, B.N., Essence of Indian Art, Asian Art Museum of San
Francisco, 1986
Huntington, Susan, The Art of Ancient India: Hindu, Buddhist, Jain,
Weatherhill, 1985
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Guha-Thakurta, Tapati, The making of a new modern Indian art:
Aesthetics and nationalism in Bengal, 1850-1920, Cambridge
University Press, 1992
Suggested Readings:
Mitter, Partha, Indian Art, Oxford History of Art series, Oxford
University Press, 2001 Dhar, Parul Pandya, ed., 2011, Indian Art
History Changing Perspectives, New Delhi: D.K.
Printworld and National Museum Institute (Introduction).
Beach, M.C., The New Cambridge History of India I: 3, Mughal and
Rajput Painting, Cambridge University Press, 1992.
Ray, Niharranjan, An Approach to Indian Art, Calcutta, 1970
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Paper-III: Archives and museums
This course introduces students to the institutions that house and
maintain documentary, visual and material remains of the past.
Museums and archives are among the most important such
repositories and this course explains their significance and how they
work. Students will be encouraged to undertake collection,
documentation and exhibition of such materials in their localities
and colleges. Visit to National Archives and National Museum are an
integral part of the course.
I.
II.
III.
IV.
Definition and history of development (with special
reference to India)
Types of archives and museums: Understanding the
traditions of preservation in India Collection policies, ethics
and procedures Collection: field exploration, excavation,
purchase, gift and bequests, loans and deposits,
exchanges,
treasure
trove
confiscation
and
others Documentation:
accessioning,
indexing,
cataloguing, digital documentation and de-accessioning
Preservation: curatorial care, preventive conservation,
chemical preservation and restoration
Museum Presentation and Exhibition:
IV. Museums, Archives and Society: (Education and
communication Outreach activities
Essential Readings:
Saloni Mathur, India By Design: Colonial History and Cultural
Display, University of California, 2007
Sengupta, S. Experiencing History Through Archives. Delhi:
Munshiram Manoharlal.2004. Guha, Thakurta, Tapati, Monuments,
Objects, Histories: Institution of Art in Colonial
Colonial India, New York, 2004 Kathpalia, Y. P. Conservation and
Restoration of Archive Materials.UNESCO, 1973
houdhary, R.D. Museums of India and their maladies. Calcutta:
Agam Kala. 1988 Nair, S.M. Bio-Deterioration of Museum Materials.
2011 Agrawal, O.P., Essentials of Conservation and Museology,
Delhi, 20
Paper-IV: Understanding Popular Culture
The paper examines some popular cultures expressed in different
mediums like visual, oral and cultural. In the process of their
evolution, these cultures eclectically draw from traditions, articulate
anxieties, and even give rise to new traditions. The paper
endeavours to equip students with understanding such phenomena
historically, with special reference to India. It is imperative that the
students use electronic devices to view, record, and document the
subject matter.
I Introduction:
Defining
understanding it historically
II Visual expressions
photography
popular
Folk
art,
culture
and
calendar
art,
III.
Performance: Theatre;
music;
folk
tales/songs/swang
and
Nautanki:Identifying
themes,
functionality, anxieties
IV. The audio-visual: cinema and television:
Indian cinema: Mapping the influence of the national struggle
for independence (1930s and 40s); Idealized nationalism
(1950s), disillusionment and the anti-establishment mood
(1970s and 80s); documentary films Expressions of popular
culture in television
V. Fairs, Festivals and Rituals:
Disentangling mythological stories, patronage,
variations
VI. Popular culture in a globalized world:
The impact of the Internet and audio-visual media
Essential Readings:
regional
Dissanayake, W. and K. M. Gokul Singh, Indian Popular Cinema,
Trentham Book, London, 2004 John Storey, Cultural Theory and
Popular Culture, London, 2001 Oberoi, Patricia, Freedom and
Destiny: Gender, Family and Popular Culture in India, Delhi,
2009 Christopher Princy, Camera Indica: The Social Life of Indian
Photographs, Chicago, 1998
Suggested Readings:
Pankaj Rag, Dhuno ke Yatri, Rajkamal, New Delhi, 2006
(Hindi) Ramanujan, A.K. Folktales from India A Selection of
Oral Tales from Twenty-two
Languages (Only Introduction). Ramaswamy, V. ‘Women and
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the ‘Domestic’ in Tamil Folk Songs’ in KumkumSangari and
Uma Chakravarti, eds., From Myths to Markets: Essays on
Gender, Shimla, 1999
Singh, Lata (ed.), Theatre in Colonial India: Playhouse of
Power, New Delhi, 2009
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Structure of B.A (Programme) History as Discipline -1
under CBCS
Core Courses—Discipline specific Course (DSC)-4
1History of India from the Earliest Times upto 300 CE
2.History of India from C.300 to 1206.
3.History of India from C. 1206to1707
4.History of India from 1707to1950
Discipline Specific Elective (DSE) Any Two
1. Patterns of Colonialism in the World: 15TH TO 19
Centuries.
2. National liberation Movements in 20th Century
World.
3. Some Aspects of European History: C.1780-1945.
4. Patterns of Capitalism in Europe: C.16TH Century to
early 20th Century
5. Paper-5: Some Aspects of Society &Economy of
Modern Europe: 15 – 18 Century
6. Political History of Modern Europe: 15 th-18th
Century
Generic Elective (Inter-Disciplinary) Any Two
1.Women Studies in India.
2.Women in Politics &Governance.
3.Some Perspectives on Women’s Rights in India.
4.Gender and Education in India.
5.History of Indian Journalism: Colonial &Post
Colonial Period.
Paper 6.CULTURES IN THE INDIAN SUBCONTINENT
Ability Enhancement Elective Course (AEEC) Any
Four
1. Historical Tourism: Theory &Practice
2.Museums &Archives in India
3.Indian History &Culture
4.Ethnographic Practices in India: Tradition of
Embroidery;TextileMaking, Knitting, Handicrafts
5 An Introduction to Archaeology
6.Documentation &Visual Culture
7.Orality and Oral Culture in India
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Core Courses: 4
1. History of India from Earliest Times up to 300 CE
I. Sources & Interpretation
II.A broad survey of Palaeolithic, Mesolithic and
Neolithic Cultures.
III.Harappan Civilization ;Origin, Extent, dominant
features &decline, Chalcolithic age.
iv. The Vedic Period: Polity, Society, Economy and
Religion, Iron age with reference to PGW &Megaliths.
v. Territorial States and the rise of Magadha,
Conditions for the rise of Mahajanpadas and the
Causes of Magadha’s success
vi. Iranian and Macedonian Invasions, Alexander’s
Invasion and impact
vii. Jainism and Buddhism: Causes, Doctrines, Spread,
Decline and Contributions
viii. The Satvahanas Phase; Aspects of Political History,
Material Culture, Administration, Religion
viii. Emergence and Growth of Mauryan Empire;
State ,Administration,Econoy,Ashoka’s Dhamma,Art
&Architecture
ix. The Satvahana Phase: Aspects of Political History,
Material Culture, and Administration & Religion
x. The Sangam Age: Samgam Literature, The three Early
Kingdoms, Society & the Tamil language
xi. The age of Shakas: Parthians & Kushanas, Aspects of
Polity, Society, Religion, Arts &Crafts, Coins, Commerce
and Towns.
References:
Agrawal, D.P. The Archaeology of India
Basham, A.L. The Wonder That was India
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Chakrabarti, D.K. Archaeology of Ancient Indian Cities
Jaiswal, Suvira Caste: Origin, Function and Dimensions
Subramanian, N. Sangam Polity
Thapar, Romila History of Early India
Allchin, F.R. and B Origins of a Civilization: The Prehistory
and Early Archaeology of South Asia
Basham, A.L. The Wonder That was India
Jha, D.N. Ancient India in Historical Outline (1998 edn.)
Kosambi, D.D. Culture and Civilization of Ancient India
Ray, H.P. Monastery and Guild India in Historical Outline
Sastri, K.A.N. A History of South India
R.S Sharma, India’s Ancient Past
Ray, Niharranjan Maurya and Post Maurya Art
Sharma, R.S. Aspects of Political Ideas and Institutions in
Ancient India (1991 edn.)
Thapar, Romila Ashoka and the Decline of the Mauryas
(1997 edn
Yazdani, G. Early History of Deccan
Aspects of Political Ideas and Institutions in
Ancient India (1991 edn.)
Thapar, Romila Ashoka and the Decline of the Mauryas
(1997 edn
Yazdani, G. Early History of Deccan
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Paper-2: History of India from. C.300to1206
I. The Rise & Growth of the Guptas: Administration, Society,
Economy, Religion, Art, Literature, and Science &Technology.
II. Harsha & His Times: Harsha’s Kingdom, Administration,
Buddhism & Nalanda
III. South India: Polity, Society, and Economy & Culture
IV. Towards the Early Medieval: Changes in Society, Polity
Economy and Culture with reference to the Pallavas, Chalukayas
and Vardhanas..
V. Evolution of Political structures of Rashtakutas, Pala
&Pratiharas.
VI. Emergence of Rajput States in Northern India: Polity,
Economy &Society.
VII. Arabs in Sindh: Polity, Religion &Society.
VIII. Struggle for power in Northern India &establishment of
Sultanate.
References:
R. S. Sharma: Indian Feudalism
-India’s Ancient Past
B. D. Chattopadhaya: Making of Early Medieval India
Derryl N. Maclean: Religion and Society in Arab Sindh
K. M. Ashraf: Life and Conditions of the People of Hindustan
M. Habib and K.A. Nizami: A Comprehensive History of India Vol.V
Tapan Ray Chaudhary and Irfan Habib (ed.)
: The Cambridge Economic History of India, Vol.I
Peter Jackson: Delhi Sultanate: A Political and Military History
Tara Chand: Influence of Islam on Indian Culture
Satish Chandra: A History of Medieval India, 2 Volumes
Percy Brown, : Islamic Architecture
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Paper -3:History of India from 1206 to1707
I. Foundation, Expansion &consolidation of the Delhi
Sultanate; Nobility &Iqta system.
II.Miltary, administrative &economic reforms under the
Khiljis &the Tughlaqs.
III. Bhakti &Sufi Movements.
IV.Provincialkingdoms:
&Bahamanis.
Mewar,
Bengal,
Vijaynagara
V. Second Afghan State.
VI. Emergence and consolidation of Mughal State, C.16th
century to mid 17th century.
VII.
Akbar
to
Aurangzeb:
administrative
structureMansab&Jagirs, State &Religion, Socio-Religious Movements.
VIII. Economy, Society &Culture under the Mughals.
IX.Emergence of Maratha Power.
References:
Irfan Habib: The Agrarian System of Mughal India 1556-1707,
Irfan Habib (ed.) : Madhya Kaleen Bharat, (in Hindi), 8 Volumes,
M. Athar Ali: Mughal Nobility under Aurangzeb,
Shireen Moosvi: The Economy of the Mughal Empire
S.A.A.Rizvi: Muslim Revivalist Movements in Northern India during
16th and 17th Centuries
R.P. Tripathi: The Rise and Fall of the Mughal Empire, 2 vol.
I. H. Siddiqui: Some Aspects of Afghan Despotism
Kesvan Veluthat: Political Structure of Early Medieval South India
P.J. Marshall: The Eighteenth Century in Indian History.
Stewart Gordon, : The Marathas 1600-1818
Percy Brown, : Islamic Architecture
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Paper-4: History of India; 1707-1950.
I. Interpreting the 18th Century.
II.Emergence of
Colonial power.
Independent
States
&establishment
of
III.Expansion &consolidation of Colonial Power upto 1857.
IV.Uprising of 1857: Causes, Nature &Aftermath.
V. Colonial economy: Agriculture, Trade & Industry.
VI.Socio-Religious Movements in the 19th century.
VII. Emergence &Growth of Nationalism with focus on
Gandhian nationalism.
VIII. Communalism: Genesis, Growth and partition of India.
IX. Advent of Freedom: Constituent Assembly, establishment
of Republic.
References:
Sugata Bose and Ayesha Jalal: Modern South Asia: History, Culture,
Political Economy, New Delhi, 1998
Sekhar Bandyopadhyay From Plassey to Partition
Barbara D Metcalf andT.R. Metcalf A Concise History of India,
Cambridge, 2002
C.A. Bayly: An Illustrated History of Modern India 1600 - 1947,
London 1990
Sumit Sarkar Modern India 1885 ñ 1947, Mamillan, 1983
Mushirul Hasan John Company to the Republic: A story of Modern
India
R.P. Dutt, India Today.
Thomas Metcalf Ideologies of the Raj.
R. Jeffery, J Masseloss, From Rebellion to the Republic.
Bipan Chandra: Nationalism and Colonialism.
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Urvashi Butalia The Other side of Silence.
Francine Frankel Indiaís Political Economy 1947- 1977.
Parul Brass The Politics of India since Independence.
Lloyd and Susan Rudolph In Pursuit of Laxmi: the Political Economy
of the Indian State, Chicago, 1987
Bipan Chandra, Aditya Mukherjee, India After Independence, Viking,
1999.
Gail Omvedt Dalits and Democratic Revolution.
Ramachandra Guha The Fissured Land.
K.G. Subramanian The Living Tradition: Perspectives on Modern
Indian Art.
Radha Kumar A History of Doing.
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Discipline Specific Elective: Any Two
Paper-1: Patterns of Colonialism in the World: 15th to 19th
Century
I.
II.
Defining Colonialism.
Establishment of Colonial Empires by Spain and Portugal in
15th-16th centuries.
III. French in Canada: 1534-1763
IV. British in India in 18th century.
V.
Informal Empire in 19th century Africa.
VI. Scramble for Power in late 19th century China.
VII. Nature of Colonial control and patterns of subjugation.
References:
Ralph Davis, The Rise of the Atlantic Economies, New York, 1973,
J.H Perry, The Establishment of the European Hegemony 14151715, Trade & Exploration in the Age of the Renaissance, Harper
Torch books, 1959,
K.R.G.Nair & Romey Borges, Discovering French Canada, Allied
Publishers, 2002
Ralph Davis, The Rise of the Atlantic Economies,
Christopher Hill, From Reformation to Industrial Revolution
Basil Davidson, Modern Africa: A Social and Political History, 3d
edn. London / New Jersey: Addison ñ Wesley, 1995
Arvind Sinha, Europe in Transition, Delhi, 2010 (also in Hindi)
69
Paper-2: National Liberation Movements in 20th century
World
I. Nationalism: Theory and Practice.
II.Nature of Imperialism and colonialism
III. National Movements in Nigeria, Kenya, Congo, Angola
&South Africa.
IV.China between 1911-1949:Revolution of 1911,May Fourth
Movement and Cultural Revolution under Mao Tse Tung.
Indonesian Revolution 1945-1949.
VI. National Movement in India.
References:
Lucian Bianco, Origins of the Chinese Revolution, 1915-1946.
A.J.Temu &Roger Owen eds, Studies in the theory of Imperialism,
1970.
E.F.Penrose,ed, European Imperialism the partition of Africa,1980.
Milton Osborne, Southeast Asia: An Introductory History.
Sumit Sarkar, Modern India, Macmillan, 1984.
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Paper-3: Some Aspects of European History: C.1780-1939
I.The French Revolution: Genesis Nature & Consequences
II.Napoleonic Era and aftermath.
III.Revolutions of 1830 & 1848.
IV.Unification of Italy &Germany.
V.Social and economic Changes.
VI. Imperialist Conflicts: W.W I
VII.Rise of Fascism and Nazism.
VIII.Origin of W.W.II
References:
E.J. Hobsbawn: The Age of Revolution.
Lynn Hunt: Politics, Culture and Class in the French Revolution.
Andrew Porter, European Imperialism, 18760 -1914 (1994).
E.J. Hobsbawm, The Age of Extremes, 1914 - 1991, New York:
Vintage, 1996
Carter V. Findley and John Rothey, Twentieth-Century World,.
Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 5th ed. 2003
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Paper 4: Patterns of Capitalism in Europe: C.16TH Century to
early 20th Century
I. Definitions & Concepts
II. Commercial Capitalism: 1500-1700
III.Industrial Revolution in England: Causes &Nature
IV. Industrial Capitalism in France: Genesis &Nature
V. Growth of Industries in Germany
VI.Impact of Industrial Revolution on European Society,
Polity & Economy.
References:
Jerry Müller, The Mind &the Market
Karl Polany, The Great Transformation
Joseph Schumpeter, Capitalism, Socialism &Democracy
Wallerstein, World System Analysis: An Introduction, 2004
Cipolla Carlo, M, Fontana Economic History of Europe, VOL I&II
Christopher Hill, From Reformation to Industrial Revolution,
Jan De Vries, The Industrial Revolution &the Industrious Revolution,
1994
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Paper-5: Society &Economy of Modern Europe: 15Tth - 18
Century
1: Historiographical Trends
II. Feudal Crisis: Main strands
III. Renaissance: Origin, Spread &Dominant Features
IV. European Reformation: Genesis, nature & Impact
V. Beginning of the era of colonization: motives; mining and
plantation; the African slaves
VI. Economic developments of the sixteenth century; Shift of
economic balance from the Mediterranean to the Atlantic
VII. Transition from Feudalism to Capitalism: Industrial
Revolution in England
References:
P S Gupta, AadhunikPaschimKaUday, Delhi
J H Plumb, The Pelican Book of the Renaissance, Penguin, 1982
G. R. Elton, Reformation Europe 1517,1559, Wiley, 1999
Ralph Davis, The Rise of the Atlantic Economies, New York, 1973
Arvind Sinha, Europe in Transition, Delhi, 2010 (also in Hindi)
Rodney Hilton, The Transition from Feudalism to Capitalism, Delhi,
2006.
FernandBraudel, Civilization and Capitalism, Vols. I, II, III,
California, 1992
Butterfield, Herbert. The origins of modern science.Vol. 90507. Free
Press, 1997
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Paper-6 Political History of Modern Europe: 15TH -18 Century
I. Europe in the 15th century: Political dimensions of feudal
crisis
II. From City States to emergence of Absolutist States: Case
Studies of Italy, Spain, France, England and Russia.
III.Constitutional Conflict in 17th century England: Causes,
nature and results.
IV. Thirty Year War: Causes, nature and Impact
V. Absolutist State in 18th Century: Case studies of Prussia,
Russia & England.
VI. Crisis of the Absolutist State in France
References:
ArvindSinha, Europe in Transition, Delhi, 2010 (also in Hindi)
Rodney Hilton, The Transition from Feudalism to Capitalism, Delhi,
2006.
Perry Anderson, Lineages of the Absolutist State, Verso, London
2013
John Merriman, A History of Modern Europe, New York, 2010
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Generic Elective (Inter-Disciplinary) Any Two
Paper 1: Women Studies in India.
I. Basic Concepts &Theories:
-Defining Gender,
-Patriarchy :Ideology &Practice
-Relationship between Gender, Caste, Class, Religion &Politics
II.Emergence of Women Studies in India
III. Gender & Social History:
-Family &Marriage
-Women’s Question in the 19th century
-Women’Movement in Colonial &Post Colonial in India
IV. Gender, Law & Politics:
-Political participation
-Violence against women &Preventive laws
V. Gender, Development & Culture:
- Issues of labour &Health
- Access to resources
- Gender audit
References:
Kamla Bhasin, Understanding Gender
Kamla Bhasin, What is Patriarchy?
Madhu Vij, et al, Women Studies in India, A journey of 25 Years,
Rawat, 2014
Kumkum Sangari& Sudesh Vaid, Recasting Women, Essay in
Colonial History, Kali for women, Reprint, 2006
Sushila Kaushik, Panchayati Raj in Action: Challenges to Women’s
Role, Delhi, 1996
Nivedita Menon, Gender & Politics in India, New Delhi, OUP, 1999
Women in Print –The change over the last half century in reporting
on women &Gender Issues in Indian newspapers, A study by
UNIFEM,by Shri Venkatram,2003
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Paper 2: Women in Politics &Governance.
I. Theoretical Perspectives on Politics &Governance
II. Pre-Colonial Period: Women of learning &ruling classes
III.Colonial Period: Leaders in reforming activities, politics and
national movement
IV.Electoral Politics, Women as voters & elected Representatives
V.Case Studies at local government levels, State Assemblies &
Parliament.
References:
Raj Kumar, Women in Politics, Anmol Publishers, New Delhi, 2000
Raj Kumar, Women & Leadership, 2000
L.M.Sanghvi, Democracy &the Rule of Law, Occean Books, Pvt Ltd,
New Delhi, 2002
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Paper 3: Some Perspectives on Women’s Rights in India.
I. Definition of Human Rights:UN Conventions &Indian Context
II.Indian Constitution &Women’s Rights
III.Preventive Acts: Minimum Wage Act,1948, Family Courts
Act,1986, Dowry Prohibition Act,1961,Immoral Traffic Prevention
Act,1986, Domestic Violence Act,PNDT Act,1994,latest measures
IV.Issues of violence against women and remedial measures
V. Role of Non Government Institutions
VI. Present Status: Issues of enabling &empowering modalities.
References:
Bina Agarwal, Field of Her Own, New Delhi,Kali for Women,
Urvashi Butalia &T.Sarkar, ed, Women & Hindu Rights, New
Delhi,Kali for Women,1996,
Zoya Hasan,ed, Forging Identities: Gender, Communities &
Patriarchies, EPW,December,1995.
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Paper: 4.Gender and Education in India.
I. Historiographical Trends
II.Education in Early and medieval times; Formal & Informal
III.Colonial Period: Socio-religious reform women & education for
females.
IV.Role of School and Colleges in Colonial and Post Colonial
Period.
V. Contours of Female literacy since 1950,
VI. Present Scenario: Education as a tool of empowerment.
References:
Aparna Basu, Growth of Education and Political Development in
India, 1898-1920,1974
Aparna Basu, Bharati Ray, Women Struggle, A History of the All
India Women’s Conference, 2002
Ram Nath Sharma Rajender Nath Sharma, History of Education in
India, Atlantic Publishers,1996
Radha Kumar, A History of Doing
Usha Sharma, Women Education in Modern India
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Paper 5: History of Indian Journalism: Colonial &Post
Colonial Period.
I. Pre-colonial History of written records &modalities of
dissemination
II. Advent of Print media :Imperialist Ideologies
III.Nationalism & Print Culture: Selective study of prominent
newspapers: Tribune, Amrita Bazar Patrika, and Hindustan Times
IV. Writing &Reporting: Field Work
References:
Natrajan.J, History of Indian Journalism, Vol. –ii of Press
Commission Report, New Delhi, 1954
Natrajan. J, A history of the Press in India, Asian Publishing House,
Bombay, 1962
Ghosh,Hamendra Prasad, Newspapers in India, University of
Calcutta,1952
Ananda. Prakash, A History of the Tribune, A Centenary Publication
by the Tribune Trust, 1986
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Paper 6.CULTURES IN THE INDIAN SUBCONTINENT
(I). Definitions of Culture and its various aspects.
1. Languages and Literature
Sanskrit: Kavya - Kalidasaís Ritusambhara: Prakrit: Gatha
Saptasati, Development of vernacular language and literature;
Indo-Persian Literature: Amir Khusro’s works: Urdu poetry and
prose: Ghalib.
2. Performing Arts
a) Hindustani, (b) Carnatic classical Music, (c) Devotional music:
bhakti and Sufi: -Classical and Folk Dance, Theatre: Classical, Folk,
Colonial and Modern
3. Architecture: Meanings, form and Function
(a) Rock-cut-Mamallapuram (b) structural ñ temple architectureKhajuraho complex
and Tanjavur temple; (c) fort of Dalulatabad or Chittor forts; (d)
palace-dargah at
Fatehpur Sikri; (e) Lutyen’s Delhi.
4. 1. Perceptions of visual Past and Present
2. Sculptures and Painting
(a) Silpashastric normative tradition: (b) Classicism ñ Narrative
and Sculptural, Mural
Fresco paintings: (c) post Classicism : Pallava , Cola; (d) medieval
idiom and Mughal paintings, painters and illustrated texts: (e)
Modern and company school, Ravi Varma, Bengal School, Amrita
Shergil and Progressive Artists.
5. Popular Culture
-Folk Lore and Oral tradition of Kathas, narratives, legends and
proverbs, Linkages of bardic and literary traditions.
- Festivals, fairs and fasts; Links with tirtha, pilgrimage and
localities.
-Textile and Crafts; the Culture of Food.
6. Communication, Patronage and Audiences
-Court Merchant groups and communities.
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-Culture as Communication.
-Nationalism and the issue of Culture; Institutions of Cultural
Practices Colonial and Post ColoniAL
SUGGESTED READINGS:
Asher Catherine, (ed.): Perceptions of Indiaís Visual Past, AIIS,
Delhi, 1994
Asher Catherine, Architecture of Mughal India
Basham A.L., The Wonder that was India. Volume I, New Delhi
Brown Percy, Indian Architecture, Buddhist Hindu and Islamic, Vol.
I, II, Mumbai, 1956
Chandra Prainod, ed, Studies in Indian Temple Architecture;
Chapter 1. AIIS, 1975.
Deva, B.C., An introduction to Indian Music, Delhi, 1973.
Maxwell, T.S., Image: Text and Meaning: Gods of South Asia, OUP,
Delhi
Tillotson G, Havelis of Rajasthan.
Zimmer, H., Myths and Symbolism in Indian Art and Civilization,
Princeton Press,
New Jersey, n.d.
Cohn. Bernard, India: The Social Anthropology of a Civilization in
Bernard Cohn Omnibus,
OUP, 2004
Vatasayana Kapila; Indian Classical Dance, Publications Divisions,
New Delhi, 1974 (in Hindi
Translation also)
K. T. Achaya, A Historical Dictionary of Indian Food , OUP.
Banerjea J.N.: The Development of Hindu Iconography, Calcutta,
1956
Bussagli M and Srivaramamurthy C.: 5000 Years of Indian Art, New
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York, n.d.
History and Culture of the Indian People, Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan
Series.
Huntington Susan L: The Art of Ancient India, Tokyo New York,
1985.
Kramrisch, Stella, The Art of India, Orient Book Depot. Delhi, 1987.
Miller Barbara Stoler: The Powers of Art: Patronage in Indian
Culture, OUP, Delhi 1992.
Mitter Partha: Much Maligned Monsters, Oxford, 1977.
Mitter Partha: Art and Nationalism in Colonial India, OUP, and Delhi.
Mukherji: Folk Art of India
Ramanujan, A.K., Collected Papers OUP.
Richman, Paula, Many Ramayanas OUP.
Rizvi, S.A.A.: The Wonder that Was India: Volume II., New Delhi.
Varadpande M.L.History of Indian Theatre: Invitation to Indian
Theatre, New Delhi, 1987.
Traditional Indian Theatre: Multiple Streams, Hindi translation:
Paramparik Bharatiya
Rangmanch: Anant Dharayed NBT, New Delhi 1995.
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Ability Enhancement Elective Course (AEEC) Any Four
Paper 1: Historical Tourism: Theory &Practice
I. Defining Heritage
- Art &Architecture in India: An overview:
-Field Work: Visit to historical sites &Museums
II. Understanding Built Heritage:
-Stupa Architecture
-Temple Architecture
-Indo Persian Architecture, Forts, Palaces, Mosques
-Colonial Architecture
-Present day structures
III. Field Work: Visit to site &Conducting of research
IV. Modalities of conducting tourism
References:
Sunil Kumar, The Present in Delhi’s Past, Delhi, Gyan Publishing
House, 2002
Peter Howard, Heritage: Management, Interpretation, Identity, and
London, 2003
V.S Agarwal, Indian Art, Varanasi, Prithvi Prakasahan, 1972
Percy Brown, Indian Architecture, Bombay, D.B.Taraporevala Sons
&Co, 1940
James Harle, The Art & Architecture of the Indian Subcontinent,
Hormonds worth, Penguin, 1988
S.K.Bhowmik, Heritage Management: Care, Understanding
&Appreciation of Cultural Heritage, Jaipur, 2004.
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Paper 2: Museums &Archives in India
I. Definitions
II. History of setting up of Museums and Archives: Some case
studies
III. Field Work; Studying of structures & Functions
IV. Training &Employment
References:
G.Edson & Dean David, Handbook for Museum, London, Routledge,
1986
John Ridener, From Folders to Post Modernism: A Concise History of
Archival Theory, 2009
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Paper 3: Indian History &Culture
I. Environment; Culture, Tradition &Practices:
-Historical overview
-Oral &codified information on medicinal Plants
-Water & Water Bodies
-Fieldwork
II. Urbanization &Urbanism:
-Issues of settlements & Landscapes
-Social differentiations
-Communication networks
III. Social inequality &Gender:
-Status within Households: An overview
-Present context
-Issues of Violence
-Employment, distribution of resources
IV.Cultural Heritage:
-Main components
-Built Heritage
-Historical Tourism
V. Cultural Forms &Cultural Expressions:
- Performing Arts
-Fairs &Festivals
-Fieldwork
References:
Indu Banga, ed. The City in Indian History: Urban Demography,
Society & Polity, Delhi, Manohar,,1991
Koch, E. Mughal Art & Imperial Ideology
Radha Kumar, History of Doing: An Illustrated Account of
Movements for Women’s Rights &Feminism in India 18801990,Zubaan, 2007
V.Vasudev, Fairs &Festivals, Incredible India Series, 2007
V.Singh, The Human Footprint on Environment: Issues in India,
New Delhi, and Macmillan, 2012
B. Parikh, Composite Culture in a multicultural Society, Delhi, NBT,
2007
N. Mehta, Introduction: Satellite Television, Identity
&
Globalization in Contemporary India in N.Mehta, ED, Television in
India, New York, Routledge, 2008
R.C. Thakran & Sheo Dutt, ed Bhartiya Upmahaduip ki Sanskritiyan,
University of Delhi
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Paper 4: Ethnographic Practices in India: Tradition
Embroidery, Textile making, Knitting, Handicrafts
I. History: Evidences and writings;
-Early India
-Medieval period
-Colonial and Post Colonial
II. Contemporary Practices:
North
-West
East
South
of
III. Field work:
-Practioners &Issues of sustenance
- Codification of Information
-Relationship between market & Conservation
References:
Textile Museum, Ahmadabad
Sanskrit Museum of Indian Textiles, Gurgaon
Indian Mirror.com,
Local & National Museums, Dharohar Museum, Kurukshetra
University,
Museum, Punjabi University, Patiala
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Paper 5: An Introduction to Archaeology
I. Definition &Components
II.Historiographical Trends
III.Research Methodologies
IV. Definition of Historical Sites &Explorations
V. Field Work & Tools of research
VI. Documentation, Codification, Classification, Analysis of
findings and publications
References:
John.A. Bintliff, A Companion to Archaeology
D.R. Chakrabarti, A History of Indian Archaeology: From the
Beginning to 1947,New Delhi, Manohar, 1988
M. Hall & WS.W. Silliman, Historical Archaeology, USA, Blackwell,
2006
Mathew Johnson, Archaeological Theory: An Introduction, Blackwell
Publishing,New Edition,2010
Published Works by ASI
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Paper 6: .Documentation &Visual Culture
I. Conceptual Framework
II.Visual Culture: Colonial & Post Colonial Contexts
III. Politics of Documentation
IV. Methods of Documentation: Photographs, Films, Videos
and digital
V. Fieldwork, Internship and Training
References:
Gayatri Sinha, ed, Art & Visual Culture in India: 1857-2007
Geeta Kapoor, When was Modernism-Essays on Cultural Practices in
India,Delhi,Tullika Publications,2000
Publications by Sarai,CSDS,Rajpur Road,Delhi
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Paper 7: Orality and Oral Culture in India
I. Defining orality
II. History &Historiography of Orality
III.Life Histories: Sociological Aspects
IV. Research Methodologies
V. Documentation: Written &Visual
References:
Humphries: The Handbook of Oral History
H. Roberts. Ed. Doing Feminist Research,Routledge &Kegan
Paul,London,1981
M.F.D. Knowledge & Control, London,1971
John Miles Foley, Oral Formulaic-Theory: An Introduction
&Annotated Bibliography, New York & London: Garland, 1985
Veena Das,ed, Mirros of Violence: Communities, Riots & Survivors
in South Asia,Delhi,OUP,1990
Prasad M. Mahadeva,Ideology of the Hindi Film: A Historical
Construction,Delhi,OUP,1998
Srirupa Roy,’ The Post Colonial State &Visual Representations of
India” Contributions to Indian Sociology, 2006,36,1&2:233-263
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